Quote of the day

This, by Charles Moore in the Telegraph:

But Lady Thatcher is right that she and Reagan made a good team because "although we shared the same analysis of the way the world worked, we were very different people". She stood for the stern, puritanical side of conservatism - the need to brace up and take the medicine. He stood for the optimistic, open, deeply American side of it - the idea that everything will be all right if only people are trusted to get on with their lives. Mix the two, and you harness the Special Relationship, for the first time in history, to the march of conservative ideas.