I don't write books inadvertently.

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

I'm not saying all publishers have to be literary, but some interest in books would help.

It would no doubt be very sentimental to argue - but I would argue it nevertheless - that the peculiar combination of joy and sadness in bell music - both of clock chimes, and of change-ringing - is very typical of England. It is of a piece with the irony in which English people habitually address one another.

On the rare occasions when I spend a night in Oxford, the keeping of the hours by the clock towers in New College, and Merton, and the great booming of Tom tolling 101 times at 9 pm at Christ Church are inextricably interwoven with memories and regrets and lost joys. The sound almost sends me mad, so intense are the feelings it evokes.

We, while noting many things amiss about Victorian society, more often sense them judging us.

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