(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.

Jaw-jaw is better than war-war.

Britain's most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur.

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.

I read a great number of press reports and find comfort in the fact that they are nearly always conflicting.

Stop-Go seemed more sensiblr than using the brake and accelerator at the same time - a practice that later became fashionable.

To be alive at all involves some risk.