" 'You install it, you coach it.' He's stern, but a fair kind of stern.
Sooner or later, for example, you're going to find yourself in a hideous, screaming fight, and you'll hear coming out of your mouth things that you yourself don't like at all, things that shatter your self-image as a fair, kind, cool, attractive, in-control, funny, likable person.
We should, on her view, understand the good person as concerned with doing what is morally valuable or required, where that concern should be understood to encompass what is honest, fair, kind, considerate, just, and so on.
To gain respect, you have to prove that you're hardworking, fair, kind, and a tough cookie.
Acceptance of income taxation as the fairest kind of tax is based on the premise that an individual's income is the best single index of one's ability to contribute to the support of government.
But by the end of it, the radical left will know what it means to fight for a new, fairer kind of capitalism, in the teeth of resistance from the old kind.
This, of course, is cheating (and poor etiquette), but it's the fairest kind of cheating because the situation you've found yourself in is entirely your own fault.
When she tells a competitor that "Queen Victoria would be proud" of their beautifully iced and decorated cake, or that they "really need to pull their socks up" after a particularly wobbly example of gingerbread architecture, the stern-fair-kind grandmother of every childhood imagination is summoned up.
His goal in life, however, is a frankly progressive one: by making information freer, he hopes to make the world fairer, kinder, and nicer.
"Social democrats," wrote Polly Toynbee, "have no ultimate egalitarian endgame, only the constant pursuit of better, fairer, kinder, more honest, more democratic ways to live together".
On Friday, the day the first ballot papers are sent out, Corbyn will hold a rally in Glasgow to outline his plan, entitled Standing to Deliver, saying it is a commitment to "a new kind of politics: a fairer, kinder Britain based on innovation, decent jobs and decent public services".
