I am MacWonder one moment and MacBlunder the next.

A successful current affairs television show seems to be more and more a cross between a music hall turn and a scene in a torture chamber.

Once the bear's hug has got you, it is apt to be for keeps.

It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter.

At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman.

It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.

A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.