Naïve article in The Independent about how all home secretaries turn into monsters.
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown has presumably not heard of the well-known saying of the first Baron Acton:
“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.”
She may not even have read what has been called ‘the best thriller ever written’: Geoffrey Household’s Rogue Male, in which the following uncited quotation, which might be seen by the uncharitable as more relevant to the present home secretary, appears as a preamble:
“…in the case of hippopotami, the wanton viciousness of old cows is not to be disregarded.”
