As I Look Ahead, I Am Filled

I Am The Last Person Whom It Would Be Reasonable To Expect To Leave The Conservative Party.

As I Look Ahead, I Am Filled With Foreboding. Like The Roman, I Seem To See "the River Tiber Foaming With Much Blood.

It Is Advertising That Enthrones The Customer As King. This Infuriates The Socialist...[it Is] The Crossing Of The Boundary Between West Berlin And East Berlin. It Is Checkpoint Charlie, Or Rather Checkpoint Douglas, The Transition From The World Of Choice And Freedom To The World Of Drab, Standard Uniformity.

The Prime Minister, Shortly After She Came Into Office, Received A Sobriquet As The 'iron Lady'. It Arose In The Context Of Remarks Which She Made About Defence Against The Soviet Union And Its Allies; But There Was No Reason To Suppose That The Right Honourable Lady Did Not Welcome And, Indeed, Take Pride In That Description. In The Next Week Or Two This House, The Nation And The Right Honourable Lady Herself, Will Learn Of What Metal She Is Made.

If I Cannot Understand My Friend's Silence, I Will Never Get To Understand His Words.