Sublime

With a long and sustained tug we have attempted to pull the mitre off pontifical man; and his head has come off with it.

"I am the man who knows too much to know anything, or, at any rate, to do anything," said Horne Fisher. "I don't mean especially about Ireland. I mean about England. I mean about the whole way we are governed, and perhaps the only way we can be governed.

This book deals with what is wrong, wrong in our root of argument and effort. This wrong is, I say, that we will go forward because we dare not go back.

Walter Lippmann, for example, wrote in 1920: “There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which to detect lies.”

Where others see a website that’s good for wasting time, Germans see a comprehensive surveillance tool that needs muscular oversight.

‘regulation-issue binoculars’.

David Ogilvy’s Confessions of an Advertising Man. The numbered paragraphs, the boxes drawn around the articles, are all Ogilvy’s ideas. I still think his books are the best on advertising that I’ve ever read and I recommend them.

opinion,

find good qualities in the highwayman in the hope that he may spare our pockets.