Bankers - pillars of society who are going to hell if there is a God and He has been accurately quoted.

Whenever governments adopt a moral tone - as opposed to an ethical one - you know something is wrong.

Bankers - pillars of society who are going to hell if there is a God and He has been accurately quoted.

A Big Mac - the communion wafer of consumption.

The neo-conservatives, who are closely linked to the neo-corporatists, are rather different. They claim to be conservatives, when everything they stand for is a rejection of conservatism. They claim to present an alternate social model, when they are little more than the courtiers of the corporatist movement. Their agitation is filled with the bitterness and cynicism typical of courtiers who scramble for crumbs at the banquet tables of real power, but are always denied a proper chair.

Wordsmiths who serve established power...castrate the public imagination by subjecting language to a complexity which renders it private. Elitism is always their aim.

We all need a bit of self-delusion. It gets us over the difficult spots.