For the sake of democracy, vigorous, civilized debate must replace the law of silence that political correctness has imposed. - Theodore Dalrymple

The British are fast turning themselves into a nation of slaves, where even the slave-masters are not free.

There is something deeply attractive, at least to quite a lot of people, about squalor, misery, and vice. They are regarded as more authentic, and certainly more exciting, than cleanliness, happiness, and virtue.

Everybody uses mime and gesture in real life, though we don’t realize it. It’s very useful as a performance technique, though it can be boring to watch on its own. As for radio, I had a wonderful teacher. I was hugely lucky. I didn’t want to play a robot, but the situation was an object lesson in fate taking over.