Ferdinand Mount
Ferdinand Mount
SirFerdinand Mount, 3rd Baronet, commonly known as Ferdinand Mount, is a British writer, novelist and columnist for The Sunday Times as well as a political commentator...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth2 July 1939
life made ifs
If life was what you made of it, then it could not be made for you.
thinking people attention
Why should people be expected to think about the meaning of life merely because they happen to be ill? That is just the time when there is no time to think about such things, because the body is so greedy for attention.
writing taking-a-break columns
It's true that I'm taking a break from writing a regular column to do other things but it's got nothing to do with what dear Simon has or has not written.
equality opportunity equality-of-opportunity
We are also further than ever from equality of opportunity.
transition transformation passing
Something is happening to Britain and the British. Or has happened. We are said to be passing through a transition, or a turning point, or a transformation; nobody is quite sure which.
way existence relation
Sexual relations, of course, have existed, exist, and will exist. However, this is in no way connected with the indispensability of the existence of the family.
believing both cannot help independence poverty systems
I cannot help believing that both the poverty and the independence would wither under most systems of Proportional Representation (PR).
age british constitution guess interest rough taking
At a rough estimate, I should guess I started taking an interest in the British Constitution at the age of forty-two and a half.
real earning rich
In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.
chance choose dedicated letting nation needs people
What the world needs now is more Americans. The U.S. is the first nation on earth deliberately dedicated to letting people choose what they want and giving them a chance to get it.
america people want
For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells out so vividly the kind of happiness that most people actually want, regardless of what they are told they ought to want.
character court-judges judging
For the first half of this century, High Court judges have been cautious to the point of timidity in expressing any criticism of governmental action; the independence of the judiciary has been of a decidedly subordinate character.
men self-worth law
All the research shows that being married, with all its ups and downs, is by far the most effective way of making young men law-abiding and giving them a sense of purpose and self-worth.
mean thinking people
I think it's a pity that in many people's minds constitutional reform and PR have come to mean much the same thing.