"The trouble with Thatcherism could be summed up in the words of the Duke of Norfolk when...he offered some reflection…"

"In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity — or, which is just as satisf…"

"At the dinner table, the talk turned to politics. It was in the days before the 'Gang of Four' had allied themselves …"

"Queen Elizabeth: I thought the girls . . . you see, they were marooned in Windsor Castle for most of the war, and I w…"

"It is clear that there are as many different languages as peoples in this island. The Scots, however, and the Welsh, …"

"In the days of my early acquaintance with Henley, some fourteen or fifteen years ago, I could never look at him witho…"

"When men live in small communities, ... they cannot avoid personal participation in some public functions. So it was …"

"It is impossible to maintain that these attributes [caution and progress] have been constant in the two great English…"

"In a certain sense, many of us mutilate the mind and render it impotent, for there is in the nature of man an irresis…"

"Lamb had written to Coleridge about one of their old masters, who had been a severe disciplinarian, intimating that h…"