I'd swap everything I've done in my miserable little life to bat like Virender Sehwag

There is a certain advantage to the British accent. I do notice that Americans love it; they think the we Brits are smarter than perhaps we are.

Can we rename [Taylor Swift] Pinocchio Swift?

History is littered with many, many talented young people who got a break damaged in the end by fame and other things when they were young and took it.

Tony Blair is a decent man who genuinely thinks what he is doing is justified. But when he sees men such as George Bush and Donald Rumsfeld smirking and boasting as they announce their Shock and Awe offensive, we hope he understands why we believe we have been dragged into something we should have been fighting tooth and nail to stop.

My favorite place in L.A. is Manhattan Beach. It's an intimate, friendly little beachside city within a city-smaller than most of its neighbors, so it reminds me of a British seaside resort. If my three teenage sons are in town, we'll play some cricket on the flat, hard sand where the water breaks, just to really confuse the locals!

Bill O'Reilly is like a comfortable pair of shimmeringly angry slippers, but you know every night what you're going to get.