Why Should We Subsidize Intellectual Curiosity?

I Cannot Be Alone In Being Pretty Nauseated By Red Nose Day, Or At Least Its Television Manifestation. Do I Think That Wretchedly Poor Children In Africa Should Get Food And Life-saving Drugs? Of Course. Do I Want To Be Hectored Into Contributing By Celebrities Who Earn More In A 10-minute Slot Than Many Of These Families Get In A Year? Nope.

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-floor Room When A Family Of Italians Crossed The Grass To Watch, As If I Were Laid On For Their Amusement And Instruction.

Some Government Expenditure Actually Makes A Profit. Our Theatre Leads The World. Loads Of Tourists Must Be Attracted By The Fact That You Could Spend A Week In London Doing Nothing But Visit Superb Museums And Galleries, Free.

The Formal Washington Dinner Party Has All The Spontaneity Of A Japanese Imperial Funeral.

There Are Few Tribes More Loathsome Than The American Right, And Their Vicious Use Of The Shortcomings In The Nhs To Attack Barack Obama's Attempts At Health Reform Are A Useful Reminder.