All else being equal, past officeholders ought to have an advantage, but all things are rarely equal.

You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.

Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so kind.

Over the past six months, the core PPI is up at about a 0.5 per cent annual rate. There is no indication that higher energy prices have led to broad inflationary pressures.

If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life.

We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished- for state. When did history become a bad word?