Rees's First Law of Quotations: When in doubt, ascribe all quotations to George Bernard Shaw.

How come there's only one Monopolies Commission?

Democracy is too good to share with just anybody.

Lord Castlerosse was taken to task by Nancy Astor over the size of his stomach. 'What would you say if that was on a woman?' she asked, pointedly. 'Half an hour ago it was,' he replied.

I was broadcast-struck from an early age; I had saved up for a tape recorder and started making programmes.

It is part of politics to make things look better than they really are. What is a spin doctor but a serial euphemiser?

Euphemism in the workplace does not end with job descriptions. It reaches a pusillanimous peak at the other end of the work process - in dismissal.