The financial world is at the cutting edge of high technology.
Everyone thinks politics will just go on the way it is. I don't agree.
It implies a slight failure as a writer that you are reduced to being a ghostwriter for the money.
Egyptologists, skilled in piecing together the papyri of lost civilisations, suddenly discovered that the same talent could be applied to working out the pattern of German radio traffic.
A police state is a country run by criminals
Politics is never a victory, it's just the remorseless grinding forward of events.