Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means ... the need to be left. I am driven to grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.

Outside every fat man there is an even fatter man trying to close in.

Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means ... the need to be left. I am driven to grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko: 'You atheist?' "Kingsley Amis: 'Well, yes, but it's more that I hate him.

Education is one thing and instruction, however worthy, necessary and incidentally or monetarily educative, another.

It is natural and harmless in English to use a preposition to end a sentence with.

Politics is a thing that only the unsophisticated can really go for.