All pleasures sicken, and all glories sink.

Liz Truss, now the Tory leadership frontrunner, launched an astonishing broadside against British workers, saying they needed “more graft” and suggesting they lacked the “skill and application” of foreign rivals, the Guardian can reveal.

the smoulderings of the Thirty Years War

[…]and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.