No theory of government was ever given a fairer test or a more prolonged experiment in a democratic country than democratic socialism received in Britain. Yet it was a miserable failure in every respect. Far from reversing the slow relative decline of Britain vis-a-vis its main industrial competitors, it accelerated it. We fell further behind them, until by 1979 we were widely dismissed as 'the sick man of Europe'...To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches.

I might have preferred iron, but bronze will do. It won't rust. And, this time I hope, the head will stay on.

The significance of the Falklands War was enormous, both for Britain's self-confidence and for our standing in the world...We had come to be seen by both frien…

On my way here I passed a local cinema and it turns out you were expecting me after all, for the billboards read: The Mummy Returns.

[The right] may never bring prayer back to schools, but it has rescued all manner of rightwing economic nostrums from history's dustbins. Having rolled back th…

The stock of money, prices and output was decidedly more unstable after the establishment of the Reserve System than before. The most dramatic period of instab…

'The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to …