Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave.

Age for me is just a number.

The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very circumscribed and not very important heroic age.

In the digital age of 'overnight' success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked.

The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack the means or the will to enforce significant change.

My grandparents got married at a very young age, and a lot of what I think about marriage is based on their relationship. I watched them over the years and saw how they dealt with everything together, as a team.