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I go by the "Miles Davis school of production and band-leading", where you pick the best musicians you can, you provide them with a minimum of direction, and you just let the music happen. I've seen it work time and time again.

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Men like Hitler and Stalin and their immediate lieutenants cannot plead in defence of their actions that these were justified by the accepted values of that time.

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There are thus great swathes of the past where understanding is more important and reputable than judgement, because the principal actors performed in line with the ideas and values of that time, not of ours.

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Prison is an expensive way of making bad people worse.

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Diplomacy is unfashionable in the world of knee-jerk reaction and the dogmatic sound bite on television.

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If Margaret Thatcher had been Prime Minister at the time, there would have been no Treaty of Maastricht.

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We should be wary of politicians who profess to follow history while only noticing those signposts of history that point in the direction which they themselves already favour.

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