I tell you, once a girl's got a dose of novels she's a pushover for iambic pentameter.
Penicillin and plastic bags help a lot, fridges and hot water make manliness more comfortable and Tom Ford's fragrance range makes it smell better, but the idea that has pushed our lives into the light more than any other -ism or -ology is feminism.
Margaret Thatcher was as viscerally hated at home as she was warmly respected abroad.
There is no concept more generally cherished by publishers than that of the Undeserving Poor.
I can't stress how much my daughter is an inspiration to stay sober. When I come home and she opens those big blue eyes at me, it's the most amazing feeling I could ever feel.
If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year. I don't manage nearly that... but I have published slightly too much recently.
Personally, I think universities are finished. So much rubbish gets taught.