It is my settled opinion, after some years as a political correspondent, that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place unless he ….

Politicians can forgive almost anything in the way of abuse; they can forgive subversion, revolution, being contradicted, exposed as liars, even ridi….

There are countless horrible things happening all over the world and horrible people prospering, but we must never allow them to disturb our equanimi….

Generally speaking, the best people nowadays go into journalism, the second best into business, the rubbish into politics and the shits into law.

There is an old story about the boy at Eton who committed suicide. The other boys in his house were gathered together and asked if any of them could ….

Politics, as I never tire of saying, is for social and emotional misfits, handicapped folk, those with a grudge. The purpose of politics is to help t….

Better to go than sit around being a terrible old bore..

When Glenda Jackson reveals that she has never been in a relationship with a man in which he hasn't raised his fists to her, I don't know whether thi….

Unless people are prepared to declare themselves your enemies you have to hunt around for them..

History, having destroyed the religion as the opium of the people, now requires that they be given a taste of the real stuff..

The urge to pass new laws must be seen as an illness, not much different from the urge to bite old women. Anyone suspected of suffering from it shoul….

Looking back at all the people I have insulted, I am mildly surprised that I am still allowed to exist..

The main objection to killing people as a punishment...is that killing people is wrong.

In England, we have a curious institution called the Church of England. Its strength has always been in the fact that on any moral or political issue….

In their quest for power and self-importance, to compensate for whatever feelings of social inadequacy or sexual insecurity, they (Politicians)are pr….

Anyone in England who puts himself forward to be elected to a position of political power is almost bound to be socially or emotionally insecure, or ….

An unemployed electrician,whom I had been taunting with my reminder of how much richer I was, leaned forward and said:'What are your qualifications? ….

Strange how much simple wisdom there is to be found in the deformed head and unprepossessing carcase of your typical London cabbie..

Judicial execution can never cancel or remove the atrocity it seeks to punish; it can only add a second atrocity to the original one ... So long as o….

Now that Mandela has been released from prison we can all admit what has been apparent, that he is not a Tembu tribesman, in fact he is not an Africa….

Anyone wishing to communicate with Americans should do so by e-mail, which has been specially invented for the purpose, involving neither physical pr….