"The Labour revolution knows no limits. Give it five years and this farm we were standing in could be collectivised, p…"

"Do I feel responsibility as someone who made the case publicly for Brexit? Well, I'm a Catholic, so I always feel gui…"

"The West feels lost. Brexit, Trump, the coronavirus: we hurtle from one crisis to another, lacking definition, terrif…"

"Once upon a time, the key unit in society was the family. Today it is the individual. The only principle we can agree…"

"Europe's hypocrisy is matched only by its impotence, and if Britain had any sense it would accept the Pax Trumpus and…"

"But until we Europeans wean ourselves off America, not just militarily or economically but psychologically, we really…"

"The more I thought about it, the more obsessed I became with the idea of a swimming journey. I started to dream ever …"

"From water level, I observed the mating joined in flight like refuelling aircraft, and the random progress of the clo…"

"It is through trees that we see and hear the wind: woodland people can tell the species of a tree from the sound it m…"

"Waterlog (1999), Roger's now-classic account of swimming through Britain, published twenty years ago this year, opens…"