Jackie Danicki

Arch-statist Martin Kettle:

You could argue, indeed, that the great lesson of the 20th century - desperately hard learned in less fortunate countries than Britain, but tough to swallow even here - is that the state does not have the answer to human problems in the way that so many hoped so naively for so long.

Johnathan Pearce at Samizdata:

I love his expression “you could argue”. There’s no argument, Martin. The failure of the state is so total, so widely proven, that it is quite astonishing that it has taken some folk a while to catch on.

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