“When ministers in this government talk about investing in education an...” — Philip Hammond Quote

When ministers in this government talk about investing in education and skills, about making the planning system work; about employment law reform and delivering transport and power generation and broadband communication infrastructure, we are talking about raising Britain's productivity.

Sound public finances are the essential foundation on which to construct a better-balanced economy from the wreckage of Labour's boom and bust. But it is economic growth that will create the jobs and the prosperity for the future and enable us to pay down Labour's debt.

The great western error about the Taliban is to assume homogeneity.

The military never uses a full word if they can create an abbreviation.

A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.

Communication is so key.

Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind.

The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.

The idea of applying psychology or behavioural sciences to communication is not a new one. It's very old behavioural economics. If it gives you some additional insights - so be it.