In The Screwtape Letters, CS Lewis argues that the most effective form of mind control is to get people to do what you want but make them believe that it is what they themselves want.

Take a leaf out of our book Germany

German Chancellor Angela Merkel will “actively support” French President Nicolas Sarkozy, a fellow conservative, in his spring campaign to win re-election, said her Christian Democrat (CDU) party in Berlin.

A VERY astute acquaintance responded to the “Noonan scare tactic” assertion regarding a referendum vote being a vote to stay in the EU, or not, as follows: “I think he is firing across the bow of the EU powers.”

THE euro faces a decisive week as European Union leaders, urged on anxiously by the United States, seek agreement on the definitive rescue plan that has eluded them for two years.