If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
It is normal for politicians in all countries to profess themselves the pupils of history, anxious to draw the right lessons from her teaching.
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.
Prison is an expensive way of making bad people worse.
Diplomacy is unfashionable in the world of knee-jerk reaction and the dogmatic sound bite on television.
If Margaret Thatcher had been Prime Minister at the time, there would have been no Treaty of Maastricht.
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.
Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? The mother.
I work without commercial considerations.
I am told that very early on in this transition process, to expect that [Donald] Trump will announce his nominee for the Supreme Court.
He was giving me enough rope to hang myself with. Apparently he didn't realize that once a noose is tied it will fit one neck as easily as another.