There can be no tyranny without opacity.
May 262015
Ruling
In ’37 Stalin made a hash
Of party loyalists and army brass.
Decimation: One in ten are shot.
What’s the word when one in ten are not?
May 062015
Every party looks its best out of power.
Apr 202015
Love has done nothing to stop wars, but marriage has prevented quite a few.
Apr 152015
In politics you can be right as long as you don’t care if you win, or win as long as you don’t care if you’re right.
Mar 252015
Hot and cold countries should never share a currency.
Mar 202015
Government by laws, not men, is the bureaucratic principle.
Mar 042015
Taxes, regarded as the price of indifference, are a bargain.
Mar 022015
Tardiness is the rudeness of kings, and punctuality the necessary politeness of their subjects.
Feb 262015
It is easy to rule people who are persuaded that they rule themselves.
Feb 232015
For every empire history offers a hundred explanations for why it fell, when what we need to know is how it lasted.