10.30 Newsnight: What Are The Chances Of World War Three Breaking Out After You Have Gone To Bed?

To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life.

Since both its national products, snow and chocolate, melt, the cuckoo clock was invented solely in order to give tourists something solid to remember it by.

Sadly, as with so much about history's heroes, it's the spotting of potential fame that's the difficulty, whether it's publishing their poems, hanging their paintings, or buying their old underwear. Think of the great men whose lives passed in penury and hacking coughs due to public unawareness that their littlest possession would end up at Sothebys or the basement at Fort Knox.

I sometimes wonder if the manufacturers of foolproof items keep a fool or two on their payroll to test things.

Malta is the only country in the world where the local delicacy is the bread.

All I know of birds to this date is that sparrows are the ones that are not pigeons.