John Morley: “Surely that is not a very ripe idea of democracy.”

But the Poet Laureate has written his own song on the hearts of his countrymen that can never die.

Is it natural effervescence, or is it deadly fermentation?

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

Could ministers justify abandonment, without far stronger evidence than they then possessed that they could not govern the Transvaal peaceably?