The memo's chief function ... is as a track-coverer, so that you can turn on someone six months later and snarl: 'Well, you should have known about it, I sent you a memo.

Without doubt, keep a diary. From the day you're born, keep a diary, because we all forget things so quickly.

I wrote my earliest piece for The Sunday Times about being a young wife.

The memo's chief function ... is as a track-coverer, so that you can turn on someone six months later and snarl: 'Well, you should have known about it, I sent you a memo.

There is something infinitely dingy about the word workshop. Pray that England doesn't become a nation of workshopkeepers.

The letter of application ... should be a masterpiece of fiction, papering over all the cracks. Get it properly typed on decent writing paper. Never let it run over the page, people get bored with reading.

I can assure you that the class system is alive and well and living in people's minds in England.