The latest research has revealed that women have a higher IQ than men.

In the past, I used to counter any such notions by asking myself: 'Would you really want President Hattersley?' I now find that possibility rather cheers me up. With his chubby, Dickensian features and his knowledge of T.H. Green and other harmless leftish political classics, Hattersley might not be such a bad thing after all.

I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.

I very much dislike the intolerance and moralism of many Christians, and feel more sympathy with Honest Doubters than with them.

IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.

A busybody's work is never done.

My belief has come about in large measure because of the lives and examples of people I have known - not the famous, not saints, but friends and relations who have lived, and faced death, in the light of the Resurrection story, or in the quiet acceptance that they have a future after they die.