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.

English Bohemianism is a curiously unluscious fruit. ... Inside this hothouse, huge lascivious orchids slide sensuously up the sweating windows, passion-flowers cross-pollinate in wild heliotrope abandon, lotuses writhe with poppies in the sweet warm beds, kumquats ripen, open and plop flatly to the floor-and outside, in a neat, trimly-hoed kitchen-garden, English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.

Jacob is a German Shepherd. (I have never understood why they aren't called German Sheepdogs. What do the Germans call shepherds?)

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

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.

The role of humour is to make people fall down and writhe on the Axminster, and that is the top and bottom of it.