The truth is a good thing.
People wear extraordinarily bright colours in India.
A parliamentary democracy that has developed its delicate balances over hundreds of years will not give up its sovereign rights.
I was brought up in a house where I was so aware of a life that had been broken by politics and conflict.
I can never thoroughly appreciate meals on ships because, away from land, I feel my autonomy is restricted.
I love a good meal on a train, and if I'm travelling on a discount ticket, the challenge is to eat more than the price of the fare.
I have liked trains since I was a boy, although I was never a train-spotter.
I worry how I look.
Again and again, people get more conservative as they get older.
Music turns the world upside down.
I do rather rejoice when people come up to talk to me about railways.
I have Spanish ancestry and, indeed, speak the language, up to a point.
Non-fictionalised accounts of horrific accidents, bereavement, and the outrages of officialdom tend to move us deeply.
I look back on my schooldays with a warm glow of nostalgia.
The late 1960s was another time and another world.
A vocation is a noble thing and not to be subverted by the whims of politicians.
For all those who experienced it, the Spanish Civil War was devastating.
I am better at politics than I am at anything else.
Oppositions usually say ridiculous things and must embarrassingly then ditch untenable positions.
Pablo Picasso first entered my consciousness when I was a boy of about eight years old.
Three letters send a chill down the spine of the enemy SAS. Those letters spell out one clear message. Don't mess with Britain!
My own father was a refugee from the Spanish civil war in the 1930s, later going on to become a BBC radio producer after World War II.
What's extraordinary about Cobra Mist, and so much of what went on at Orford, was that the public were completely oblivious to it.
