The abuse of children is the worst offence that anybody can commit.

I was walking across King's Cross station when a drunken Irishman came stumbling up and flung his arms around me. He wanted to thank me for the peace process in Northern Ireland.

For years I had been disillusioned by the Church of England's compromising on everything. The Catholic Church doesn't care if something is unpopular.

My cat did that the other day when he came in from the garden.

The abuse of children is the worst offence that anybody can commit.

I stay on terra firma: the more firm, the less terror.

I cannot bear the language TV chefs use - they don't seem able to look at a plate of vegetables without accusing it of sexual activity.