"In so far as New Labour has a fairy godmother, Polly is the girl. She incarnates all the nannying, high-taxing, high-…"

"Polly is the high priestess of our paranoid, mollycoddled, risk-averse, airbagged, booster-seated culture of politica…"

"All I can say is that when I had come out of my faint, and read what Greg was saying, I saw, naturally, that he was a…"

"The punishment block is aptly named Bleak House, and known just as Bleak. Several of the solitary cells inside this s…"

"The last candidate of the day was also the son of a doctor. The Dean knew his father too. "His father is a bright cha…"

"If the Divis Complex in Belfast isn't the vilest housing estate in Britain, I am willing to accept nominations for th…"

"He came from a public school, was the son of an old student of the dean ... [and] the only one with a distinctly sour…"

"The greatest motor behind the anti-abortion campaign has always come from the Catholic and fundamentalist Protestant …"

"Sometimes it seems as if a tidal wave of the worst Western culture is creeping across the globe like a giant strawber…"

"Yet again we are to be treated to the disgusting spectacle of the virtually all-male House of Commons pontificating s…"