Occupation: Writer Birth: June 28, 1954 Death: December 10, 2016
Get up now and go and find Robert Kilroy-Silk. Smile in a warm, friendly sort of way, then punch him on the nose. Now go and find Robert on televisio….
We like to see death as an unfair conspiracy, and what we want is a magic practitioner, a combination of Dr Watson and Sherlock Holmes..
Nobody ever forgets their first night in the bush. It's among the precious, meagre handful of life firsts that remain indelible..
The reason that chefs become chefs is that they're not allowed into rooms with windows..
Science fiction is never about the future, in the same way history is rarely about the past: they're both parable formats for examining or commenting….
The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isn’t wishful thinking. It’s the rule..
Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions..
I still secretly believe that afternoons are the time for the test card and you shouldn't watch television when the sun is out..
Americans think the only funny Brits are John Cleese, Benny Hill and whoever makes our toothpaste. They're not laughing with us, they are laughing at….
Celebrity is a national drama whose characters' parts and plots are written by the tabloids, gossip columnists, websites and interactive buttons. The….
He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers' melt waters to go back.
There were moments when I wondered at the gossamer veil that stops licence from being libel. I suspect that taking on the job of England manager puts….
Television gives us the gift to see ourselves as we'd like to be seen..
Is it a particularly British trait to so utterly adore truly appalling men, from Tony Hancock through to Steptoe and Alf Garnett, Captain Mainwaring,….
A broadsheet obituarist once pointed out to me that veteran soldiers die by rank. First to go are the generals, admirals and air marshals, then the b….