Category: Quote

  • 13/05/2020
    But, as R.H. Tawney once observed, shifts to collective provision are only realised after demonstrations that ‘high individual incomes will…
  • 08/05/2020
    The value of wine exchanged yearly between consumers, connoisseurs and collectors—the secondary market—has quadrupled to $4bn since 2000, says Justin…
  • 07/05/2020
    As a human being, and a citizen of this country, I deplore almost everything that’s going on in public life,”…
  • 28/04/2020
    Cito, longe, tarde. (Leave quickly. Go far away. Come back slowly.) Faced with a highly contagious, lethal disease for which…
  • 23/04/2020
    Covid-19 I want to come out of this better than when I started. A cliché, but one of the best…
  • 19/04/2020
    Please, no... Feel in need of a “mental health day” right now (or what we used to call “a break”)?…
  • 14/04/2020
    The millennial generation — the first to have lived entirely inside the mature meritocracy — appreciates these burdens most keenly.…
  • 09/04/2020
    I have been reading the ‘The Fifth Risk’ by Micheal Lewis. It is a book for out time, telling many…
  • 02/04/2020
    Bruce Charlton pointed me to this entry in Wikipedia on Seymour Cray "One story has it that when Cray was…
  • 24/03/2020
    Alfred North Whitehead: “Some of the major disasters of mankind have been produced by the narrowness of men with a…