We're taking part in a divine comedy and we should realise that the play is always a comedy, in that we're all ultimately ridiculous.

We're taking part in a divine comedy and we should realise that the play is always a comedy, in that we're all ultimately ridiculous.

It's miraculous how much easier the computer has made my sort of work.

As George Orwell wisely observed a generation later, the only way swiftly to end a war is to lose it.

A Tory government with a decent mandate seems the only hope of tackling the fiscal catastrophe responsibly.

When I am fishing, I think quite a lot about the fish, but I also think about the book I'm writing.

There was no doubt that in the early and mid-eighties that many of us in broadsheet newspapers felt that we still had a responsibility to try to protect the Royal Family or if you like protect the Monarchy from the assaults of the media.