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.

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

Living in New York is like being at some terrible late-night party. You're tired, you've had a headache since you arrived, but you can't leave because then you'd miss the party.

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

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

When I was collecting material for a political gossip column, and someone said something interesting, I would wait for them to add, "and I don't want to read that in your magazine!" In which case I wouldn't use it. But if they didn't remember to say it, I'd nip off to the loo, write the story up, come back and change the subject.