‘In the 1970s, with inflation at 25 per cent, anyone who bought gold could be sent to prison’

‘It’s easy to forget that this sophisticated modern city is nonetheless part of a repressive Communist system’

'David Cameron should pursue a bold new strategy: seek an alliance with a splinter group of dissatisfied Lib Dems'

'Despite Reagan's "crusade" to "foster the infrastructure of democracy", there are more elections but they decide less and less'