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

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.

In general, Hitler embodied the view of any popular newspaper.

Since Einstein developed his theory of relativity, and Rutherford and Bohr revolutionised physics, our picture of the world has radically changed.

This book has been a catalogue of mistakes by politicians, moral and practical disasters which led to wars, enslavement and wretchedness on a scale which no previous age could have dreaded or dreamed of.

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