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.

The citizen's job is to be rude - to pierce the comfort of professional intercourse by boorish expressions of doubt.

Simplicity is no longer presented as a virtue. The value of complex and difficult language has been preached with such insistence that the public has begun to believe the lack of clarity must be a sign of artistic talent.

Nothing is absolute, with the debatable exceptions of this statement and death.

United States:. A nation given either to unjustified over-enthusiasms or infantile furies.

I have a theory of statistics: if you can double them or halve them and they still work, they are really good statistics.

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