There is no greater anesthetic than sport.

Attending a Sarah Palin rally was simultaneously one of the strangest and most chilling events of my life.

Australia turns out to be a sensational place, albeit one of the most comfortably racist places I've ever been in. They've really settled into their intolerance like an old resentful slipper.

The moment I accept that there's an artistic, redeeming quality in puns, I have a horrible feeling I'll get hooked.

My family are from Liverpool, so I have some twang there - I have a Midlands accent, and I was raised about an hour north of London, so my voice is a mess. Although, to American ears, it sounds like the crisp language of a queen's butler.

Congratulations, Congress! 77% disapproval rating! You may be about to become the English language's most offensive C-word.

I think puns are not just the lowest form of wit, but the lowest form of human behavior.