I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.

It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.

It is eerie being all but alone in Westminster Abbey. Without the tourists, there are only the dead, many of them kings and queens. They speak powerfully and put my thoughts into vivid perspective.

Personally, I think universities are finished. So much rubbish gets taught.

Anti-Semitism is extremely common.

I very much dislike the intolerance and moralism of many Christians, and feel more sympathy with Honest Doubters than with them.