"Oatley embarked on an extremely dangerous — even foolhardy — programme of visiting hardline republican areas, to whic…"

"They are going up and down the country, stirring up apathy."

"[A Conservative government would operate a glasshouse system of detention centres for some of those young people] so …"

"Encountered Willie Whitelaw at dinner. He came in rather late and then started to tell me how absolutely ghastly life…"

"Every prime minister needs a Willie."

"Abbreviations are the wheels of language, the wings of Mercury. And though we might be dragged along without them, it…"

"England, our native country, one of the most renowned monarchies in the world, against which the Pope beareth a speci…"

"The most high and absolute power of the realm of England consisteth in the parliament: for as in war where the king h…"

"To be short, the prince is the life, the head and the authority of all things that be done in the realm of England. A…"

"Minnie, I canna caa my wheel, or spin the oo or twine the tweel. It's luve a laddie whammles me. Ech, the wanchancie …"