10.30 Newsnight: What Are The Chances Of World War Three Breaking Out After You Have Gone To Bed?
Alan CorenTelevision is more interesting than people. If it were not we should have people standing in the corner of our room.
Alan CorenJacob is a German Shepherd. (I have never understood why they aren't called German Sheepdogs. What do the Germans call shepherds?)
Alan CorenEnglish 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.
Alan Coren