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"We do so love a literary rejection, provided it isn’t our own, of course."

"Now nobody, it seems, wants to be seen as normal: not even normal people. But I do. All my life I’ve craved normality and never quite managed it"

"In Britain's universities, there is no incendiary debate on Brexit, merely a stunned lack of comprehension and the blithe assumption that all we “nice” people voted to remain"

"Beyoncé got involved in youth voter registration — you could sign up at her concerts — because apparently, without the world’s most famous pop star yelling at us, millennials cannot fill out

"The proposed sugar tax and a prospective ban on BOGOFs — supermarket buy-one, get-one-free offers — are perfect examples of how muddled thinking leads to the busybody interference of the Nanny State"

On Instagram, there's nothing cooler than corporate sponsorship — so aspiring influencers are now creating fake sponsored content

Miniature paintings suit the modern world — we live in a miniaturised world

The characters in Dickens's novels have voracious appetites — but how did Dickens dine?

There's nothing to stop us bringing back hereditary peerages — reflecting lifetimes of success rather than political cronyism

The Army is short of new recruits, but retention of personnel is a much bigger problem

'My particular bugbear is that inherently redundant phrase “forward planning”. Ever tried ‘backward planning’?'