"If he had done that, his place in history and the UK's role in the world would have been so much more honourable.
I haven't enjoyed a novel of hers so much since "A Fairly Honourable Defeat" - whose title applies aptly enough to what finally becomes of Edward Baltram.
For him, photography is not so much about shooting pretty pictures, but about "being as honourable as possible to capture in a single image the story that a moment wants to tell".
Instead, I simply pointed out that Gordon Brown spends so much time and effort pretending to be the Right Honourable Thomas Gradgrind, that he can hardly complain when people believe him.
The value of that effort is due to the honourable and straightforward conduct of Sir Edward Grey, which did so much to localise the Balkan wars and to prevent the mobilisation in Austria and Russia from terminating in an explosion.
Every incident relating to the late battle is so interesting and honourable to the national character, and the source of so much commendable pride and exultation to every Englishman, and at the same time so much sought after, that we have been induced to collect them from every conceivable source and present them to our readers.
So much so that we refer to one of our Republican senators, the Honourable Ted Stevens, as "Uncle Ted".James DainisAnchorageFamily planningSIR – I wasn't entirely surprised by the South African government's display of lemons and beetroot as alternatives for the prevention of AIDS ("Beetroot but no blushes", August 26th).
On 25 June 1815, the paper declared: Every incident relating to the late battle is so interesting and honourable to the national character, and the source of so much commendable pride and exultation to every Englishman, and at the same time so much sought after, that we have been induced to collect them from every conceivable source and present them to our readers.
The problem in Britain appears to be not so much the HRA itself but our legal culture, which not only has an honourable tradition of defending individual rights but has also developed, in the past couple of decades, an adversarial hostility to elected politicians.
With the honourable exception of Animal Kingdom in 2013, the first half-dozen World Cups at Meydan left many spectators not so much trembling with excitement as wide-eyed with astonishment.
