The Pope, if nothing else, should be a Catholic. If he were to announce that women would make great priests, except it's a pity that more of them are…

- Declan Lynch

Inarticulate wretches have been behind most of the major advances in civilization. If Vincent Van Gogh had been able to get on with his neighbours, t…

- Declan Lynch

Sven's actual results on the park were not quite good enough to make him a hero, and not quite bad enough to get him the sack, so he left the gentlem…

- Declan Lynch

I just wonder what has been the effect on the human soul of nearly a century in which we have regarded sex on screen as generally better than the sex…

- Declan Lynch

Liverpool's grand opera also gave us some light comedy - on hearing the news that the house of goalkeeper Pepe Reina was burgled, and his Porsche sto…

- Declan Lynch

Advocates of dumbing down should note the wonderfully perverse fact that 'University Challenge' and 'Mastermind' were watched by millions who could h…

- Declan Lynch

The seriousness or otherwise of the subject matter is often irrelevent to the question of whether a book is any good. F Scott Fitzgerald wrote a grea…

- Declan Lynch

If there is only 24 hours to save the universe why are you talking to us?

- Declan Lynch

With the advent of 24-hour Sky News, the News Flash has been greatly devalued. Time was, when something unimaginably horrendous had to happen before …

- Declan Lynch