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

How come there's only one Monopolies Commission?

My job involves searching for 'lost' quotations - that is, trying to find out who came up with a quotable saying that lingers in someone's mind and which they wish to use for their own purpose and which they cannot find in conventional dictionaries of quotation.

Democracy is too good to share with just anybody.

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

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."

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