Quote of the day 27th April 2014

"At a time when democratic politicans are more unpopular than they have ever been in my lifetime, and respectable newspapers are speculating how much better off we might be without them, it is worth being reminded that all of the alternatives are far, far worse."

(Francis Beckett, concluding sentence of a review in this month's BBC History magazine of Archie Brown's book The Myth of the Strong Leader.)

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