I liked 35 and in both my novels that is the age of the lead characters. I tried making them my age but they just seemed to keep moaning about stuff.

As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.

A lot of those comics can't hold down relationships and they've got no other life apart from performing. They sleep in their Jags and a lot of them can't even talk. All they can do is tell gags.

Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, may have had his charms, but he really couldn't be considered hip.

But as in all cults, what's central to the Communist Party is the belief system and the elimination of nuance. From there you're very slowly led down the road to fanaticism and mass murder.

Israel is the Jimmy Saville of nation states.

I feel sorry for many politicians we expect them to be completely consistent and moralised when we're not.