I think it is just a matter of them deciding in advance who can take the heat and answer questions. I don't think it means anything more than an honorary thing.

They just take turns. It think it is almost a farce when they elect a president because they very obviously take turns.

It's funny how a song can start in your mind, and then when it goes through all the filters, it ends up in a totally different spot.

As a five-year-old in Berlin in 1965, I didn't know that funny women existed. It wasn't until I got back to England that I realised women could be funny.

My privileged upbringing and education and linguistic fluency gave me such proximity to whiteness that it stung all the more to still find myself outside of it. My mother, on the other hand, not only accepted that she would always be an outsider in this country but also believed it to be a finer fate and home than any other she could have had.

Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it.