I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.

It is eerie being all but alone in Westminster Abbey. Without the tourists, there are only the dead, many of them kings and queens. They speak powerfully and put my thoughts into vivid perspective.

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

We tell ourselves that God is dead, when what we mean is that God is Dad, and we wish him dead.

The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.

Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.

The death of any man aged 56 is very sad for his widow and family. And no one would deny that Steve Jobs was a brilliant and highly innovative technician, with great business flair and marketing ability.