In the British public service nothing succeeds like failure: indeed, failure is success, if looked on in the right way, namely as something requiring yet further intervention in people's lives to amend.

Children in school are not students, they are pupils. It is typical of certain kinds of politicians that they should regard children as adults, the better subs…

In a corporate state, all attempts to reduce bureaucracy increase it.

If we can sympathise only with the utterly blameless, then we can sympathise with no one, for all of us have contributed to our own misfortunes - it is a conse…