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Global warming, like Marxism, is a political theory of actions, demanding compliance with its rules.

Is there any possibility of giving international air travel, which we all need and use and hate, a touch of glamour, or even of reliable, soulless efficiency? I suspect future historians will puzzle over our failure. But by then, of course, we shall be in the age of mass space travel, with its fresh and unimaginable crop of horrors.

Long periods of recession, which tend to be self-perpetuating, are usually ended by war, or by preparations for it.

To many, Heathrow in August is a paradigm of Hell.