‘The acquiescent citizen is always a soft target for lazy, disproportionate policing’

‘The trolls of the web have been put on notice. I won’t read your vile comments’

‘I sympathise with London motorists who are exasperated with massive packs of cyclists’

‘It’s appalling that 28 per cent of us live off the state…Like my father, without work I would be bereft’

‘A few Muslim extremists have transformed the experience of travelling’

‘The US has been hoist on the petard of its own propaganda, its own vanity about itself being a “nation of immigrants”’

'Life doesn't imitate art; art imitates life, rather pallidly in most instances'

'Beware: your government is about to become dangerous. It is about to become California'

'DIY is a way of life and a point of view. I have the highest regard for manual competence'

‘I have nothing against the hard-working citizens of Bangalore, but I doubt I am alone in my dismay that British companies have outsourced their helplines wholesale’