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Remember, PM is not here to give financial advice. Your interest in the programme may go down as well as up.

Mair (2003)

"David Cameron there, just a short walking distance away from our microphone."

"The population of the United Kingdom has, for the first time, reached sixty million. If they stood on each other's shoulders they would reach perhaps twenty feet in the air before toppling over."

Commentors to the Blog suggested Nick should take the Independent for every penny...

"I've been waiting to be arrested all day. I'm disappointed!" [Mair replies] "We're all with you on that one."

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Ill can he rule the great, that cannot reach the small.

Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene (1589)

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

James Madison

Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.

Leon Trotsky The Revolution Betrayed (1936)

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

John Adams

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