Nick Clegg agrees with Cardinal de Retz: ‘Il n’y a rien dans ce monde qui n’ait un moment decisif’ — there is nothing in this world that does not have a decisive moment.
Nick Clegg agrees with Cardinal de Retz: ‘Il n’y a rien dans ce monde qui n’ait un moment decisif’ — there is nothing in this world that does not have a decisive moment. Last year, Mr Clegg published a pamphlet called ‘The Liberal Moment’, which he said had come. Last week he made a speech in which he said the Liberal moment had arrived on 7 May. ‘Our challenge now is to seize this moment,’ he said.
I’m not quite sure how long a moment hangs around waiting to be seized — surely not as along as a year. According to John Trevisa, the knowledgeable Vicar of Berkeley, Gloucestershire, there are 40 moments in an hour and 12 ounces in a moment and 47 atoms in an ounce.
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