After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was.

Like all the best radical positions, then, mine is a thoroughly traditionalist one.

For Aristotle, goodness is a kind of prospering in the precarious affair of being human.

There is an insuperable problem about introducing immigrants to British values. There are no British values. Nor are there any Serbian or Peruvian values. No nation has a monopoly on fairness and decency, justice and humanity.

Scratch a schoolboy and you find a savage.

It is easy to see why a diversity of cultures should confront power with a problem. If culture is about plurality, power is about unity. How can it sell itself simultaneously to a whole range of life forms without being fatally diluted?

Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of... revolutionary avant-gardism.