As speechwriters we seek to write a speech that says the right thing, in the right way at the right time.
When I started reading this book, it articulated many things to me that I’d been thinking and feeling for a long time. My perceptions were crystallised.
Nicholas Tobias gave up the prissy life of being a student at Princeton and Oxford to be a soldier in probably the toughest corps in the world.
He’s a sensitive man who willingly enters a crude and brutal male environment.
Between 1536 and 1540, the monasteries of England and Wales were dissolved.
What should the great political project for the remaining years of this decade be?
It should be a similar assault on universities in England and Wales.
The arguments for surpression are similar in both cases: corruption and social change.
The 16th century sage, Erasmus, condemned the monasteries for vice, fraud and contributing nothing to wider society.
I cite as evidence a recent planning application for ‘luxury student accommodation’ in my home town.
The student loan system created incentives for people to go to university for the wrong reasons and burdened graduates with crippling debts, inhibiting their ability to buy property and support their own families.