We live in a querulous age; more, we live in an age in which it is argued that to be happy is frivolous, and expecting to be happy positively childis… - Bernard Levin

Stealthily the computer advanced, vanguard of the technological revolution, hailed as the cure for all mankind's ills and denounced as the baleful force which would first enslave and then destroy us all.

Courageous, self-willed and frantically energetic, Levin holds strong views which he enunciates with unambiguous force.

As for trying to be funny — well, long ago the late proposed that typographers should design a new face, which would slop the opposite way from italics, and would be called "ironics". In this type-face jokes would be set, and no-one would have any excuse for failing to see them. Until this happy development takes place, I am left with the only really useful thing journalism has taught me: that there is no joke so obvious that some bloody fool won't miss the point.