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
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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.
equality opportunity equality-of-opportunity
We are also further than ever from equality of opportunity.
constitution accepted symmetrical
No constitution is or can be perfectly symmetrical, what it can and must be is generally accepted as both fair and usable.
argue cast combined defenders minute quo served status system taken
Defenders of the status quo will argue that this system has served us well over the centuries, that our parliamentary traditions have combined stability and flexibility and that we should not cast away in a minute what has taken generations to build.