One of the most important factors in life, politics and war, to which historians tend to devote too little attention, is sheer luck, good or ill.

It often happens that people come to believe in their own fictions.

Justice in politics has an uncomfortable habit of being rough.

The fact is that Margaret Thatcher was never really a Conservative.

One of the most important factors in life, politics and war, to which historians tend to devote too little attention, is sheer luck, good or ill.