'Alumni could be an integral part of saving European institutions of learning from becoming the Costa cafés of the academy'

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

‘The image of the newspaperman as a suave but ballsy individual who, whisky in hand, wires copy to a smoke-filled newsroom is now incredibly remote’

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