You Cannot Carry On Forever

New Fathers, Political Prisoners, Traumatised Presidential Aides, Resolute Schoolboys, Meps Addressing Unfriendly Chambers - We All Find That Shakespeare Has Magically Anticipated Our Precise Circumstances. How He Was Possible, I Still Don't Understand; But There Isn't A Day I'm Not Grateful That He Speaks To Me In My Own Language.

The 'eu In A Nutshell' Is A Miscellany Of Facts And Anecdotes About The System Which Rules Us. It's A Book You Can Delve Into In Pursuit Of A Particular Fact, Or Crack Open For Entertainment At Virtually Any Page.

The U.s. States That Allow For Citizens' Initiatives Tend To Have Fewer Laws And Lower Taxes Than The Ones That Don't. But The Beauty Of The System Is That It Encourages The Spread Of Best Practice.

You Cannot Carry On Forever Squeezing The Productive Bit Of The Economy In Order To Fund An Unprecedented Engorgement Of The Unproductive Bit.

The 'robben Island Bible' Has Arrived At The British Museum. It's A Garish Thing, Its Cover Plastered With Pink And Gold Hindu Images, Designed To Hide Its Contents. Within Is The Finest Collection Of Words Generated By Human Intelligence: The Complete Works Of William Shakespeare.