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

I've served on five different juries, and many of them were bonkers in their own way.

Switzerland still has a huge share of the watch market, all advertised at the airport on illuminated hoardings. Gosh, they are ugly.

I cannot be alone in being pretty nauseated by Red Nose Day, or at least its television manifestation. Do I think that wretchedly poor children in Africa should get food and life-saving drugs? Of course. Do I want to be hectored into contributing by celebrities who earn more in a 10-minute slot than many of these families get in a year? Nope.

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

The formal Washington dinner party has all the spontaneity of a Japanese imperial funeral.

British diplomats who worked in Iran during the 1980 hostage crisis are deeply upset by Ben Affleck's Oscar-winning film 'Argo,' which suggests they refused shelter to the group who managed to get out of the U.S. embassy.