I think it's a pity that in many people's minds constitutional reform and PR have come to mean much the same thing.

One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.

No constitution is or can be perfectly symmetrical, what it can and must be is generally accepted as both fair and usable.

Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.

I hate churches, all of them. But they used to know something about the importance of silence.

If life was what you made of it, then it could not be made for you.

According to Richard Clarke, the former White House counterterrorism chief, Bush was so obsessed with Iraq that he failed to take action against Osama Bin Laden despite repeated warnings from his intelligence experts.