To many, Heathrow in August is a paradigm of Hell.

Courage is the essential element in any great public man or woman.

At some time in their careers, most good historians itch to write a history of the world, endeavor to discover what makes humanity the most destructive and creative of species.

For me this is the vital litmus test: no intellectual society can flourish where a Jew feels even slightly uneasy.

I like that lady - Sarah Palin. She's great. I like the cut of her jib.

Bismarck had cunningly taught the parties not to aim at national appeal but to represent interests. They remained class or sectional pressure-groups under the Republic. This was fatal, for it made the party system, and with it democratic parliamentarianism, seem a divisive rather than a unifying factor. Worse: it meant the parties never produced a leader who appealed beyond the narrow limits of his own following.

Long periods of recession, which tend to be self-perpetuating, are usually ended by war, or by preparations for it.