90% of what we did the Press didn't know about, and 90% of what they did know about they got wrong.
To be alive at all involves some risk.
One nanny said, "Feed a cold"; she was a neo-Keynesian. Another nanny said, "Starve a cold"; she was a monetarist.
(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.
The only quality needed for an MP is the ability to write a good letter.
If ever the call comes to them, the young will go straight from the ranks of the neutralists into the ranks of he Majesty's Forces, as they have so often done in the past.