Democracy is too good to share with just anybody.

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

I was terribly shy and never said anything in class. Then I started getting into school plays. When you've got words to say, you've got a sort of armour.

People will say what they want to say, in the way they want to.

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.

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

I am only too aware that I am open to Rees's Second Law of Quotation: "However sure you are that you have attributed a quotation correctly, an earlier source will be pointed out to you."