I've served on five different juries, and many of them were bonkers in their own way..

Reagan is the only man to take the presidency as a part-time job, a means of filling up the otherwise empty hours of retirement..

The Chinese do make vast quantities of wine for home consumption, but you wouldn't want to drink it yourself..

In Washington, success is just a training course for failure..

I also learned to play Fruit Ninja on an iPad. It is quite hypnotic, and I hope one day to get past 100 points. I remembered that David Cameron admit….

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 becaus….

I know of no wars started by anyone to impose lack of religion on someone else..

The formal Washington dinner party has all the spontaneity of a Japanese imperial funeral..

Even I would find a book about my life pretty dull..

Some government expenditure actually makes a profit. Our theatre leads the world. Loads of tourists must be attracted by the fact that you could spen….

Until now their line has been that the Tories are incapable of doing anything about poverty, and aren't interested in doing it in the first place. By….

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

America loves the representation of its heroes to be not just larger than life, but stupendously, awesomely bigger than anything else. If blue whales….

Peter Mandelson is the only man I know who can skulk in broad daylight..

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 agno….

Canada is not so much a country as a clothesline nearly 4,000 miles long. St John's in Newfoundland is closer to Milan, Italy than to Vancouver..

All over the U.S. there are people whose lives are being destroyed for lack of proper health care provision, and there is no sight more odious than t….

While it is entirely untrue that Canadians lack a sense of humour, the funniest ones tend to head south: Dan Aykroyd, Jim Carrey, Michael J. Fox..

Kind 'Guardian' readers have been forwarding me round robin Christmas newsletters for years now: lengthy missives full of perfect children, exotic ho….

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

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-floo….