"I am appalled to think that the government is so conservative and timid in its thinking that it cannot even now contemplate abandoning the divisive and so-called gold standard of A-levels".
Every so often, though, I spend time with a company that is so original in its strategy, so determined in its execution, and so transparent in its thinking, that it makes my head spin.
But while I support the Euston group's commitment to democracy and the Enlightenment, there is a hole in its thinking which makes it politically dysfunctional.
It's quite horizontal in its thinking.
"Radical design is known for not having produced that many buildings; it's very conceptual in its thinking," says the exhibition's co-curator, Sumitra Upham.
Certainly, he is at pains to point out that his desire is not simply to raise the RCA's income but also to bring it up to date in its thinking.
But the US still has a long way to go before it fully recognizes that time itself is a labor issue – and, some would say, it is moving backwards in its thinking.
"At the time the only publication around crime prevention from the EU was a British one, and it was very British in its thinking: with fences, cameras and alarms," he said.
"Lynn is an old urban community," she said, "and because of that, it's quite parochial and conservative in its thinking.
Although wrong in disabling ways and philosophically illogical, it redeems itself with one golden thread in its thinking: democracy is a universal principle that must be upheld.
Although the study by International Monetary Fund economists does not reflect the Fund's official position, it is another sign of a shift in its thinking about income disparity.
