The Chinese do make vast quantities of wine for home consumption, but you wouldn't want to drink it yourself.

Life was so much simpler in pre-video days when everyone refused invitations because the 'Forsyte Saga' was on. Now we all just have a long list of unwatched shows, all of which, it seems, our friends are raving about. I feel as outdated as if I wore a Fair Isle sweater, ate Pot Noodle and had a two-bar electric fire in the sitting room.

Reagan was a flesh and blood version of any other mute national emblem, say the Statue of Liberty. Everyone knows what she represents, but no one would dream of asking her opinion.

Even I would find a book about my life pretty dull.

All over the U.S. there are people whose lives are being destroyed for lack of proper health care provision, and there is no sight more odious than the rich, powerful and arrogant trying to keep it that way.

If you read the 'Daily Mail,' you would imagine that the British middle classes lead lives of unremitting misery.

The Chinese do make vast quantities of wine for home consumption, but you wouldn't want to drink it yourself.