If I See A Door Ajar, I

John Major Is What He Is: A Man From Nowhere, Going Nowhere, Heading For A Well-merited Obscurity As Fast As His Mediocre Talents Can Carry Him.

There Are No Inevitabilities In History

The Study Of History Is A Powerful Antidote To Contemporary Arrogance. It Is Humbling To Discover How Many Of Our Glib Assumptions, Which Seem To Us Novel And Plausible, Have Been Tested Before, Not Once But Many Times And In Innumerable Guises; And Discovered To Be, At Great Human Cost, Wholly False.

I've Been Having An Affair, But I Still Believe In Family Values.

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.