Matthew Parris

“I call this the prophet’s paradox: the more the prophet is believed beforehand, the less they are credited afterward.”

“Radical Simplification: A Practical Way to Get More Out of Limited Foreign Assistance Budgets”

“We have so much diagnostic writing because it often tells us something we very much want to know: which of our enemies are to blame. That, I think, is why we can read it endlessly, even when it repeats what we’ve already read.”

“For those of us who live under technocracy, to contemplate the previously dominant technology always feels like sniffing the air of freedom.”