Every generation of children has its private hero.

An uninspiring canvas becomes a glamorous masterpiece when it is reattributed to a better-known artist.

After you've read a novel, you only retain a vague memory of its contents. You remember the atmosphere, the odd image or phrase or vivid cameo.

I find it hilarious that there are academics who try to analyse chemical changes in the brains of students while exposing them to gags.

Every generation of children has its private hero.

The outfits come and go but there is a constant that I like about the catwalk model: the snotty expression.

It was Julie Burchill who decreed that, beyond a certain age, a man should not be seen in a leather jacket.