They're a damn nuisance - I've got one in my bathroom and every time I run my bath the steam sets it off.
Ah, you're the one who wrote the letter. So you can write then.
In the days when the nation depended on agriculture for its wealth it made the Lord Chancellor sit on a woolsack to remind him where the wealth came from. I would like to suggest we remove that now and make him sit on a crate of machine tools.
That's a nice tie... Do you have any knickers in that material?
It makes you all look like Dracula's daughters!
The more people there are, the more food we need, the more space we occupy, the more resources and consumer goods we wish to have and the more development has to take place