I've never been nostalgic, personally or politically - if the past was so great, how come it's history?

A good part - and definitely the most fun part - of being a feminist is about frightening men.

I have always voted Labour and I always will. I have got to have one stupid, bovine part of me and that's the part that votes Labour.

People - and I include myself - get fat because they choose pleasure over self-denial.

To believe that one, or even three, mates can supply all the things one needs from one's friends is as stupid as believing married couples must do everything together.

Presley sounded like Jayne Mansfield looked - blowsy and loud and low.

Contrasting British servicemen and women with the appeasers, it is hard not to laugh. Are these two sides even the same species, let alone the same nationality? On one hand the selflessness and internationalism of the soldiers; on the other the Whites-First isolationism of the protesters. Excuse me, who are the idealists here?