By virtue, thou enforcest laughter ; thy silly thought, my spleen

I say it is south, for the country is more deserted there." And I say east, said my patient. I am for west, remarked the plain-clothes man. […] And I am for north, said I […] Come, cried the Inspector, laughing, it's a very pretty diversity of opinion. We have boxed the compass among us.

Lesser evilism has now become the default position to justify everything from drone strikes, domestic spying, targeted assassinations, torture and proxy wars to full-scale military intervention.

Reckoning from 1802 till November 15, 1837, there were thirteen Houses of Commons