January 17, 2025

One final tip to rebels: always have a second profession in reserve.

Nigel Nicolson, (1917-2004), British writer and Conservative politician, The Spectator, 7 November 1992, Jay p.272

What’s yours? Or do you think that once elected, you are “in” for life?

So true! In Verdi’s opera, Rigoletto, the Duke tells us that “La donna é mobile” (Women are fickle). Imagine if he had had to face an electorate.