There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.

I am MacWonder one moment and MacBlunder the next.

If ever the call comes to them, the young will go straight from the ranks of the neutralists into the ranks of he Majesty's Forces, as they have so often done in the past.

Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.

It's no use crying over spilt summits.

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.