It seems that everyone has their own inexplicable fear to have nightmares about. We need nightmares to keep ourselves entertained, and fend off the contentment that we all fear and abhor so much.

Remember that fear causes to happen the very things it fears. That's why fear should be unknown to us.

The real index of civilization is when people are kinder than they need to be.

History is the propaganda of the victors.

The De Bernières were very military. I broke the military tradition but I was terribly proud of my father being a soldier.

The garden where you sit Has never a need of flowers, For you are the blossoms And only a fool or the blind Would fail to know it

So the news that divorced fathers are to be denied a legal right to a relationship with their children, in the long overdue review of family law published this week, fills me with horror and despair.