Fame Is No Sanctuary From The Passing

One Christmas Build-up Tradition, However, Has Totally Bypassed Me - That Of Going Up To Town And Doing A Show.

Rachel Cusk's Books Are Like Pop-up Volumes For Grown-ups, The Prose Springing Out Of The Page To Bop You Neatly Between The Eyes With Its Insights.

Monarchists Frequently Declare That Without The Royal Family, Britain Would Be 'nothing.' What A Woeful Lack Of Love For One's Country Such Statements Express.

Prostitution Is The Supreme Triumph Of Capitalism. When The Sex War Is Won Prostitutes Should Be Shot As Collaborators For Their Terrible Betrayal Of All Women, For The Moral Tarring And Feathering They Give Indigenous Women Who Have Had The Bad Luck To Live In What They Make Their Humping Ground.

It May Be A Cliché, But It's True - The Build-up To Christmas Is So Much More Pleasurable Than The Actual Day Itself.