Sublime

‘A war more unjust in its origin, a war more calculated in its progress to cover this country with permanent disgrace, I do not know, and I have not read of,’ was William Gladstone’s verdict on the Opium War and capture of Hong Kong.

Why, he really wanted to know, was his son so emotional? Where did he get this capacity to infect others with emotion: to agitate them, discomfit them, shake them out of their ease?

So removed had the British now become from their Indian subjects, and so dismissive were they of Indian opinion, that they had lost all ability to read the omens around them or to analyse their own position with any degree of accuracy. Arrogance and imperial self-confidence had diminished the desire to seek accurate information or gain any real kno

Honecker

This theological aggression soon led to active persecution, as bad theology often does,

any genuine upsurge in opportunity is almost inevitably bound to lead to at least a brief surge in inequality.

Political struggle in this era must involve other groups.

Wanless review

There is nothing wrong with the idea that government should collect statistics to inform itself. But there is a risk that this view slips into a proprietorial sense of ownership, when politicians believe not only that they should be using statistics to run the country, but that those statistics are none of anyone else’s business, and that external