Democracy Is Too Good To Share With

My Toils In The Quotation Field Have Led Me To Formulate Two Or Three Laws About The Way People Use And Abuse Quotations. My First Law Is: When In Doubt, Ascribe All Quotations To Bernard Shaw - Which I Don't Mean To Be Taken Literally, But As A General Observation Of The Habit People Have Of Attaching Remarks To The Nearest Obvious Speaker. Churchill, Wilde, Orson Welles And Alexander Woollcott Are Other Useful Figures Upon Whom To Father Remarks When You Don't Know Who Really Said Them.

Euphemism In The Workplace Does Not End With Job Descriptions. It Reaches A Pusillanimous Peak At The Other End Of The Work Process - In Dismissal.

I Was Broadcast-struck From An Early Age; I Had Saved Up For A Tape Recorder And Started Making Programmes.

I Was Absolutely A Non-starter At Games. My Report For Rugby Said, 'nigel's Chief Contribution Is His Presence On The Field.' I Used To Pray For Rain And Sometimes It Did Rain - And We Played Anyway.

I Was Terribly Shy And Never Said Anything In Class. Then I Started Getting Into School Plays. When You've Got Words To Say, You've Got A Sort Of Armour.