I think the majority of the British people are still sanguine about the need for war.

Tentacles of terrorism spread everywhere

In housing in the fifties in Britain and the sixties, we pulled down the terraces - destroyed whole communities and replaced them with tower blocks and we built walkways that became rat-runs for muggers. That was the fashionable opinion. But it was wrong.

I am walking over hot coals suspended over a deep pit at the bottom of which are a large number of vipers baring their fangs.

There are more myths about Black Wednesday than the Greeks ever created.

Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters.

Ronnie Barker will forever be remembered as one of the great comic actors.