Second quote of the day 16th June 2015

Never interfere with your enemy when he is making a mistake"

(Napoleon I, also attributed to various other people in various forms but you can find here the evidence that a form of this advice was first attributed within living memory of the Battle of Austerlitz as having been said at that battle by Napoleon.)

I have been running through a series of Free Speech quotes this week to match up with the anniversary of Magna Carta, and I posted one this morning.

However, it also occurs to me that the above quote - which of course is relevant to the other important anniversary which falls this week, that of Waterloo on 18th June 1815 at which Napoleon was finally defeated - seems particularly apposite today following Jeremy Corbyn's nomination as a candidate to be leader of the Labour party. See next post ...

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