In the winter she curls up around a good book and dreams away the cold.

It's a sad fact of modern life that if you drive long enough, sooner or later you must leave London behind.

For a terrifying moment I thought he was going to hug me, but fortunately we both remembered we were English just in time. Still, it was a close call.

It's a police mantra that all members of the public are guilty of something, but some members of the public are more guilty than others.

What frustrated me was the thought that with three thousand years of history someone in China, some monk in a monastery halfway up a mountain, must have developed a magic kata, a physical expression of formae. Or at least have got close enough to explain all those legendary swordsmen and their inexplicable desire to roost on the tops of bamboo trees.

Somebody doesn't know they're not in Kansas anymore,' said Stephanopoulos.

On the plus side, there were no rioters in sight but on the minus side this was probably because everywhere I looked was on fire.