Genealogy is among the fastest-growing leisure pursuits in the U.K. Indeed, the urge to uncover the truth about our ancestors has proved so compelling that, when the 1901 census first went online, the website crashed after a million people logged on within hours of its launch.
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Anyone who wants to promote a car or a football tournament turns to opera. There's a much greater public connection than the image of plush corporate boxes would suggest.
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Politics now is rather like going into Starbucks for a coffee.
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In a more intellectually rigorous age, I wouldn't be talked about as a satirist at all. I would just be a topical comedian.
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Now I'm instantly nervous about the demands of doing a weekly column.
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I don't have olive skin. Nobody could tell from my skin that I'm Mediterranean. I'm quite fair, and I do burn easily.
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If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
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I can't look at John Prescott without thinking of Les Dawson, and Robin Cook is a caricature of himself.
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I remember when Tony Blair came into office, and there was a sense I was thinking, 'Well, what on Earth am I going to do now?' until I realized that's exactly what he was thinking.
