"It was as if all the meritocratic fantasies of every 1960s educationalist had come true and all Harold Wilson’s child…"

"Inclusive. It’s one of those ghastly, politically correct words that have survived the demise of New Labour. Schools …"

"It wasn't my proudest moment. I asked who a particular MP [was] who one couldn't see the head of, but was sitting beh…"

"My proposal is this: once this technology [genetically engineered intelligence] becomes available, why not offer it f…"

"I'm neither misogynistic nor homophobic. I'm a strong supporter of both women's rights and LGBT rights."

"In the days of my early acquaintance with Henley, some fourteen or fifteen years ago, I could never look at him witho…"

"When men live in small communities, ... they cannot avoid personal participation in some public functions. So it was …"

"It is impossible to maintain that these attributes [caution and progress] have been constant in the two great English…"

"In a certain sense, many of us mutilate the mind and render it impotent, for there is in the nature of man an irresis…"

"Lamb had written to Coleridge about one of their old masters, who had been a severe disciplinarian, intimating that h…"