Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.

I'm dying, but so are you

The suicide-bombing community is not absolutely 100 percent religious, but it is pretty nearly 100 percent religious.

Margaret Thatcher has shown that there is power and dignity to be won by defying the status quo and the majority rather than by adapting to them. If the British left, which she froze into immobility like Medusa, could bring itself to learn from this, then we might not have to look upon her like again.

What if I pulled through and the pious faction contentedly claimed that their prayers had been answered? That would somehow be irritating.

I have more than once in my time woken up feeling like death.

Cheap booze is a false economy.