Armageddon is not around the corner. This is only what the people of violence want us to believe. The complexity and diversity of the world is the hope for the future.

Once the travel bug bites, there is no known antidote.

Somewhere, a long way away, people are doing sensible things like mowing lawns and digging gardens.

I have been unusually blessed in that I've been allowed to pursue two strands of a career that both delight me and seem to please the public.

One of the difficult things of so much travelling is to say goodbye.

People say the most stupid things on the spur of the moment that they then have to retract.

Listen -- strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.