It Takes Less Than A Decade For

Democracy Has Many Enemies, And The Terrorist Is Only One Of Them.

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.

The Most Evil Person I Ever Met Was A Toss-up Between Pablo Picasso And The Publisher-crook Robert Maxwell.

Scanning The Newspapers And Absorbing With A Mixture Of Incredulity And Indignation The Enormities They Report, I Conclude That What England Lacks Today Is, Quite Simply, Sense.

The Richness And Variety, And Indeed The Advance, Of Our Culture Depend Upon The Continuation Of This Conflict [between Conservatives And Radicals], Which Is Deeply Rooted In Human Nature.