In 2004 I started a blog called The Salisbury Pages, which I maintained briefly before realizing that writing an essay every day wasn't a good way to relax, besides, I turned out to be a lot less clever, or funny, than I'd thought. More recently it has occured to me that it would be useful to have somewhere to pop my occasional rants; if only to stop me posting them on facebook and alienating my friends. Unfortunately I can't remember my login details for The Salisbury Pages, so I've had to start a new one.
I've used the Salisbury name again because I've a soft spot for Lord Salisbury, Prime Minister twice in the late nineteenth century. To summarize him (badly) he believed it was the duty of government to do as little as possible, because whatever governments tried to do they invariably got wrong, making things worse.
It's a philosophy I've embraced enthusiastically, much to the annoyance of my wife and work colleages. However I can't help feeling that the country would be a better place if twenty first century prime ministers had embraced the philosophy as keenly.
I've used the Salisbury name again because I've a soft spot for Lord Salisbury, Prime Minister twice in the late nineteenth century. To summarize him (badly) he believed it was the duty of government to do as little as possible, because whatever governments tried to do they invariably got wrong, making things worse.
It's a philosophy I've embraced enthusiastically, much to the annoyance of my wife and work colleages. However I can't help feeling that the country would be a better place if twenty first century prime ministers had embraced the philosophy as keenly.
Lord Salisbury, exhausted after doing as little as possible at work all day.
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