The only quality needed for an MP is the ability to write a good letter.

It is, of course, a trite observation to say that we live "in a period of transition." Many people have said this at many times. Adam may well have made the remark to Eve on leaving the Garden of Eden.

Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.

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.

You can hardly say boo to a goose in the House of Commons now without cries of "Ungentlemanly," "Not fair" and all the rest.

There are three bodies no sensible man directly challenges: the Roman Catholic Church, the Brigade of Guards and the National Union of Mineworkers

I have never found criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.