A successful current affairs television show seems to be more and more a cross between a music hall turn and a scene in a torture chamber.

We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts.

You can hardly say boo to a goose in the House of Commons now without cries of "Ungentlemanly," "Not fair" and all the rest.

Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.

One nanny said, "Feed a cold"; she was a neo-Keynesian. Another nanny said, "Starve a cold"; she was a monetarist.

It isn't those who always addressing each other as comrade who necessarily show the most brotherly feelings.

Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth.