John Morley: “Secrecy saps the citizen’s courage, promotes evasion, tempts to downright lying.”

With a few exceptions, a political speech like the manna in the wilderness loses its savour on the second day.

This was a complete falsification of a whole set of our national promises.

This is no mere case of barren wrangle and verbal recrimination.

The general situation in Egypt had latterly become one in which everything was governed by sheer military violence.