I know of no wars started by anyone to impose lack of religion on someone else.

Remember how Margaret Thatcher came to believe that abroad was more important than at home? Didn't do her much good.

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

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

Until now their line has been that the Tories are incapable of doing anything about poverty, and aren't interested in doing it in the first place. By contrast, Labour says, we are also incapable of doing anything about poverty, but would dearly love to do something. If we knew what.

In Washington, success is just a training course for failure.

The nanny seemed to be extinct until 1975, when, like the coelacanth, she suddenly and unexpectedly reappeared in the shape of Margaret Thatcher.