He [<nowiki/>Anthony Crosland] and his Socialist fellow-theoreticians did a terrific job in degrading scholastic standards in the name of equality, w… - George MacDonald Fraser

Certainly no general [Slim] ever did more with less; in every way, he was one of the great captains.

Whoever said that Russia was an enigma inside a something-or-other inside something else, was dead right. I don't understand the place yet.

But with today's mammoth papers the poor boobs have to write at ten times the length their subject is worth, and apart from over-padded news we have the curse of modern journalism, the proliferation of the commentary, the background exposition, the in-depth analysis, the "think-piece", all adding up to an indigestible stream of crap which no one wants to read, and no one, to judge by the mechanical repetition and weary rambling, wants to write either.