• The British press has an insatiable appetite for making public things that should be private. It's a prurience that I've never understood.

    Niall Ferguson: The British press has an insatiable appetite for making public things that should be private. It's a prurience that I've never understood.
    "Niall Ferguson: 'Westerners don't understand how vulnerable freedom is" by William Skidelsky, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2011.