Peter Jones

Ancient & Modern | 19 January 2008

‘Change’ is the latest buzzword of contemporary politics.

‘Change’ is the latest buzzword of contemporary politics.

Change is, of course, quite meaningless until one knows what (precisely) is being changed and to (precisely) what; and, for a government in power for ten years, it leaves hanging in the air the objection, ‘If you want to keep on changing things, it rather suggests that you have kept on getting things wrong.’

The Romans had a terror of change.

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