A police state is a country run by criminals

Politics? Boring? Politics is history on the wing! What other sphere of human activity calls forth all that is most noble in men's souls, and all that is most base? Or has such excitement? Or more vividly exposes our strengths and weaknesses? Boring? You might as well say that life itself is boring!

My literary career was a fluke. Utterly unexpected.

Tape is the archiving champ and has been for decades. Reliable, less expensive than disks and available in large-scale robotic systems that store petabytes.

Cicero most reminds me of Harold Wilson. Both men knew how to keep the show on the road.

In a way I'm almost more rueful about the notion of having a non-ideological Labour party than I am about the personality of Tony Blair.

What a heap of ash most political careers amount to, when one really stops to consider them!