"I could not be clearer about the threat that comes from what I call the assassin’s veto: people who say, 'If you say that, we will kill you'"

"Death in Venice is the best book ever written about the nature of creative talent"

"Reg Prentice’s 1977 defection heralded the ascendancy of Margaret Thatcher"

‘Our rigid, unresponsive centralised healthcare system, designed by state-socialists and run by bureaucrats, serves neither patients nor practitioners’