https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Thu, 12 Nov 2026 23:50:03 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 https://wist.info/benn-tony/49617/ https://wist.info/benn-tony/49617/#respond Tue, 09 Nov 2021 15:26:15 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=49617 The House will forgive me for quoting five democratic questions that I have developed during my life. If one meets a powerful person — Rupert Murdoch, perhaps, or Joe Stalin or Hitler — one can ask five questions: what power do you have; where did you get it; in whose interests do you exercise it; to whom are you accountable; and, how can we get rid of you? Anyone who cannot answer the last of those questions does not live in a democratic system.

Tony Benn (1925–2014) British politician, writer, diarist
Speech, House of Commons (16 Nov 1998)

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