Trading in the Politicians for a Nicely Inbred Imperialist
Telegraph - What can you expect from men on the make? By Simon Heffer
It is that, in the days when the old governing class ran this country, things did seem to work better. They used to run an empire on the same number of people that now run a few NHS trusts. But they weren’t just more efficient: they were also more personally reliable. You will, I know, forgive me for being old-fashioned, but those who ran Britain until a couple of generations ago went into public life for a reason now incomprehensible to most of their successors: they simply felt that it was their duty to do so, so that they could serve the country.
(Seems to me a fair number of them were those dreaded hereditary peers. But never mind.)
April 29th, 2006 at 3:43 pm
They used to run an empire on the same number of people that now run a few NHS trusts.
Ima tossing a coin, laugh or cry?
April 29th, 2006 at 5:29 pm
Uh, how ’bout a laugh, then a good hearty thump thump?
April 30th, 2006 at 4:12 am
Still a little early for a thump thump the cats and retrievers are still dozing. Maybe later this am when the leaf-blower man starts.
April 30th, 2006 at 5:09 am
I trust that the inventor of the leaf-blower is even now cowering in anonymity pursuant to a vicious hate-mail campaign of letters full of leaves printed with suggestion as to where he can put his blower nozzle? It would be only fair.
April 30th, 2006 at 9:36 am
heh heh Brett
thump thump thump
April 30th, 2006 at 10:05 am
Oh I dearly hope so.