There Is Something In Me

Friends Have Suggested That I Am The Least Qualified Person To Talk About Happiness, Because I Am Often Down, And Sometimes Profoundly Depressed. But I Think That's Where My Qualification Comes From. Because To Know Happiness, It Helps To Know Unhappiness.

The Royal Family's Existence Is A Constant Reminder Of The Hollowness Of John Major's Rhetoric, And Idiotic Statements By Its Leading Members A Constant Boost To The Republican Cause. They're Fine Opening Hospitals. It's When They Open Their Mouths They Get Into Trouble.

He [tony Blair] Was Always Ambivalent About The [rupert] Murdoch Papers. But He Gave Other Papers The Chance To Believe It Was Just About 'the Independent.' And That Was Wrong.

As Tony [blair] Said In His Book, Gordon [brown] Was Brilliant And Impossible. If He'd Just Been One Of Those Things, The Options Are Obvious.

My Dad, Donald, Was A Vet And Had A Practice In Yorkshire. Cats And Dogs Were His Bread And Butter, But His Greatest Love Was Large Animals.