English, however, is kinky. It has a predilection for dressing up like Welsh on lonely nights.

English, however, is kinky. It has a predilection for dressing up like Welsh on lonely nights.

Frankly, Barack Obama is a standard issue leftist that you would expect of somebody with his particular experience, and he doesn't exactly hide it.

People have been warning us that language was going to the dogs ever since Latin started turning into French. Yet the dogs in question never seem to emerge yelping on the horizon.

I think even in today's America, there's a sense that there's something vaguely sexy about cigarettes.

No longer can we measure compassion by how much we spend on poverty but how many people we help to lift out of poverty.

I don't think that we really know a whole lot about Barack Obama at all that you would really call distinctive.