Living In New York Is Like Being

When You Visit A Foreign City You Are In It, But Not Of It, Separated By A Glass Wall. Once, While A Student, I Was Getting Dressed In My Ground-floor Room When A Family Of Italians Crossed The Grass To Watch, As If I Were Laid On For Their Amusement And Instruction.

Watching The Commons Tribute To Margaret Thatcher Was Like Being Suffocated Inside A Gigantic Sticky Toffee Pudding, But One With Nasty Bogeys Planted Inside. There Was Much Of The 'margaret Thatcher Who Was Lucky Enough To Know Me,' Especially From Her Own Side Of The House.

Why Should We Subsidize Intellectual Curiosity?

I'm Often Amazed At The Way Politicians, Who Spend Hours Poring Over Opinion Poll Results In A Desperate Attempt To Discover What The Public Thinks, Are Certain They Know Precisely What God's Views Are On Everything.

I Know Of No Wars Started By Anyone To Impose Lack Of Religion On Someone Else. We Have Lethal Sunni V Shia, Catholic Against Protestant, But No Agnostic Suicide Bombers Attack Crowded Atheist Pubs.