Ferdinand Mount
Ferdinand Mount
SirFerdinand Mount, 3rd Baronet, commonly known as Ferdinand Mount, is a British writer, novelist and columnist for The Sunday Times as well as a political commentator...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth2 July 1939
constitution accepted symmetrical
No constitution is or can be perfectly symmetrical, what it can and must be is generally accepted as both fair and usable.
men tangled delight
Francis Wheen takes a hugely enjoyable sweep through the tangled thickets of superstition and gullibility in which modern man likes to ramble. He takes particular delight in reminding us how easily fools are parted from their money and how many of them there are.
unique doubt comeback
We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes.
government consistency quality
We want a system that will improve consistency and steadiness in the quality of government.
iraq president literature
The president is being denounced for not taking the kind of pre-emptive action in Afghanistan that he has been so passionately denounced for taking in Iraq. Damned if he does and damned if he doesn't.
literature freedom-of-the-press presses
One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.
america literature way
America slept because most Americans preferred it that way.
life made ifs
If life was what you made of it, then it could not be made for you.
thinking people attention
Why should people be expected to think about the meaning of life merely because they happen to be ill? That is just the time when there is no time to think about such things, because the body is so greedy for attention.
writing taking-a-break columns
It's true that I'm taking a break from writing a regular column to do other things but it's got nothing to do with what dear Simon has or has not written.
equality opportunity equality-of-opportunity
We are also further than ever from equality of opportunity.
transition transformation passing
Something is happening to Britain and the British. Or has happened. We are said to be passing through a transition, or a turning point, or a transformation; nobody is quite sure which.
believing both cannot help independence poverty systems
I cannot help believing that both the poverty and the independence would wither under most systems of Proportional Representation (PR).
way existence relation
Sexual relations, of course, have existed, exist, and will exist. However, this is in no way connected with the indispensability of the existence of the family.