Sir Alec Douglas-home, When He Was British

Never Look For The Story In The 'lede.' Reporters Are Required To Put What's Happened Up Top, But The Practiced Pundit Places A Nugget Of News, Even A Startling Insight, Halfway Down The Column, Directed At The Politiscenti. When Pressed For Time, The Savvy Reader Starts There.

The Trick Is To Start Early In Our Careers The Stress-relieving Avocation That We Will Need Later As A Mind-exercising Final Vocation. We Can Quit A Job, But We Quit Fresh Involvement At Our Mental Peril.

I'm A Right-wing Pundit And Have Been For Many Years.

When I Need To Know The Meaning Of A Word, I Look It Up In A Dictionary.

The Remarkable Legion Of The Unremarked, Whose Individual Opinions Are Not Colorful Or Different Enough To Make News, But Whose Collective Opinion, When Crystallized, Can Make History.