As it happens, I have personally been something of an enthusiast for the London Olympic games, mainly on the grounds a) that a bit of wasteland will be made nice and b) that it tends to make everybody happy that their country should be the centre of world attention for a couple of weeks in their lif
“If war should break out between England and Japan, the latter would suffer much more than the former.”
“People wouldn't even go into science unless there was something much bigger to be discovered, something that is transcendent.”