Grimond is a Liberal who writes as if he is Che Guevara. In this book, he makes a number of radical statements, imploring Liberals to "mount an attack" against the norms and stagnation of the 1960s.

Some nice quotes:

1. “Politics have become mere epiphenomena, entertainment on the television or a spectacle to assure us how important democracy is, when all the time the real decisions are small bureaucratic shifts, this way and that, agreed in private to meet the pressure of events.” (7)

2. “We live, and can only live fully, in society. Even the private world of thought and sensation depends upon the impact of society- the relations which unite and separate us.” (9)

3. [We need] “reform of the Civil Service, not because the Civil Service is bad but because it is so good: so good at keeping things going and making the case against change… administration is not everything.” (10)

4. “By ‘Left’ should be meant something more than the economic ‘Left’: something more than the determination to reform all those blots on our society which have been so well described by many younger economists and social reformers. It should mean a return to wider, humane traditions, from Hume to Frankfurter. It should mean a re-statement of John Stuart Mill in the twentieth century.” (316)

5. “It is by its ability to excite to action and so change the quality of people’s lives, rather than by its answers on immediate policy or political tactics, that the new Liberal Party will stand or fall.” (317)

Amen.