"I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it"
- George Bernard Shaw
Then accept the fact that media campaigns to foreground the poppies that are not being worn, as opposed to the ones that are, serve not as a memorial to the sacrifices made on our behalf, but as a reminder of our hard-wired one‑upmanship and infinite capacity to find ways to divide ourselves.
William Blake - "The Man who pretends to be a modest enquirer into the truth of a self evident thing is a Knave."
One of the many truths that politicians will never utter is that their mediocrity is, ultimately, a reflection of our own – our failure to understand, scrutinise and care, which is then exacerbated by the disappointing people that that failure allows to come to prominence.
- dAVID mITCHELL
One of the many truths that politicians will never utter is that their mediocrity is, ultimately, a reflection of our own – our failure to understand, scrutinise and care, which is then exacerbated by the disappointing people that that failure allows to come to prominence.
- dAVID mITCHELL
