Sublime

the mental inertia that John Stuart Mill called the ‘deep slumber of a decided opinion’.

As the filmmaker Adam Curtis told The Economist, ‘People are frightened of instability. But the job of a good politician is to give them a story that says “yes this is risky, but it’s also thrilling and it might just lead to something extraordinary.”’

the 2016 Old Greshamian Magazine, “Looking back, one can readily recognise his courage continuing to teach using a microphone and speakers to amplify his voice. At the time, did we really appreciate the bravery and determination this must have taken?”

The engineers who had pioneered this form of construction worked for Arup, a company famous for its stated principle of only working on projects that matter.

Paul Smith