‘When a book or album no longer takes up space, doesn’t it seem less important, less precious?’

‘A couple I know earn $236,000 between them, so why are they so deeply in debt? Their problem, in a word, is education’

'I'm newly sympathetic to sane, smart, broad-minded Muslims who have lately been lumped in with the kooks getting all the press'

'In the 2012 Obama campaign, the future of American "entitlements", Medicare and Social Security, is avoided'

'I'm a cyclist, not a cycho. Go ahead, hyperventilate: I jump the red light'

'It is not rational to delight in a eurozone collapse. But the euro has become the supreme icon of all we despise about the EU'

‘London has been ruined by roadworks. Post-2000, this erstwhile beautiful city has looked like Mogadishu’

'Two successful sharp cookies marry and bear sharp cookies: voilà, a self-sustaining upper class based not on historical injustice but merit'

‘It can’t just be a coincidence that the UK has rubbish colon screening and some of the highest mortality rates for bowel cancer in the Western world’

‘I honestly don’t know what self-respecting women are supposed to call themselves now that “feminist” has grown so tainted’