Thought for the Day No. 7: Justice and Mercy

I think that if, at the end of my brief life (hopefully longer than Keats's), I should have contributed anything to the great body of Western political philosophy, it will have been an exposition of the following principle:

Justice for all, mercy for each.

Pregnant Thought for the Day No. 3: English Law

Only in England will you find the existence of a troublesome law defended on the grounds that no-one enforces it.