“I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.”
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In the past, I used to counter any such notions by asking myself: 'Would you really want President Hattersley?' I now find that possibility rather cheers me up. With his chubby, Dickensian features and his knowledge of T.H. Green and other harmless leftish political classics, Hattersley might not be such a bad thing after all.
I suppose if I'd got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today, but I hope not. People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.
Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness - perhaps unimaginative of me.
Truth comes to us mediated by human love.