I know that Brighton is famously a mixture of the seedy and the elegant, but in the summer of 2001 seediness swamped elegance hands down.

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

Punk was over in two years. That was the only damn good thing about it.

And call me a pig, but isn't it brilliantly refreshing how early the Dutch eat dinner? When they're still laying out the cutlery in achingly hip Barcelona, they're hanging the Closed sign on the restaurant doors of old Amsterdam.

But just think what a boring, bread-and-milk world this would be without the boastful.

Being a monarchist - saying that one small group is born more worthy of respect than another - is just as warped and strange as being a racist.

I believe, literally, in the God of the Old Testament, whom I understand as the Lord of the Jews and the Protestants. I'm a Christian Zionist, as well as a Christian feminist and a Christian socialist.