For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells out so vividly the kind of happiness that most people actually want, regardless of what they are told they ought to want.

He then became a regular contributor to Standpoint magazine. His son Harry Mount is also a journalist and his cousin Mary Cameron is the mother of Prime Minister of the United Kingdom David Cameron leader of the Conservative Party. ISBN 978-1-84737-798-2.

His son Harry Mount is also a journalist and his cousin Mary Cameron is the mother of Prime Minister of the United Kingdom David Cameron leader of the Conservative Party. He inherited the Mount baronetcy from his uncle William in 1993. He lives in Islington.