Experts say men think of sex every 10 seconds... What do they think of in the other nine?

A traditional fixture at Wimbledon is the way the BBC TV commentary box fills up with British players eliminated in the early rounds.

A sense of humour is common sense dancing.

Once, BBC television had echoed BBC radio in being a haven for standard English pronunciation. Then regional accents came in: a democratic plus. Then slipshod usage came in: an egalitarian minus. By now slovenly grammar is even more rife on the BBC channels than on ITV. In this regard a decline can be clearly charted... If the BBC, once the guardian of the English language, has now become its most implacable enemy, let us at least be grateful when the massacre is carried out with style.

Humphrey Searle writes music that sounds like the theme from 'Star Wars' played backwards through a washing machine.

Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology.

One of the virtues of the NHS... it doesn't worry you about money at the moment when you're least capable of doing anything about it.