We want a system that will improve consistency and steadiness in the quality of government.

Francis Wheen takes a hugely enjoyable sweep through the tangled thickets of superstition and gullibility in which modern man likes to ramble. He takes particular delight in reminding us how easily fools are parted from their money and how many of them there are.

The president is being denounced for not taking the kind of pre-emptive action in Afghanistan that he has been so passionately denounced for taking in Iraq. Damned if he does and damned if he doesn't.

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

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

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

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