Succession reminds me of an Einstein quote from 1949

"It’s not the dog’s fault it’s a teen nightmare – the good news is that they grow out of it far faster than human teens"

These days the holiday prep isn’t just about the pandemic. It’s about travelling while middle-aged. It’s about doom packing.

"...the UK is now the kind of place that it would traditionally invade in the name of human rights..."

Some poor teenage baker has already had to delete her Facebook page because of two things: she is the Bake Off’s first vegan contestant, and she has a horse called Winnie.

"You don’t need to be a sociologist, anthropologist, or any other kind of ologist to work out that skewed sex ratios result in grave social imbalance"

'Why the hesitancy? Surely, it is time to do the things that make us feel most human, most alive, most connected'

"Gen Z may have to weather accusations of "snowflakery", but their absolute refusal to tolerate even casual, unintentional or unconscious instances of -ism or -ia is to be applauded."

I can’t process women dying in crushes outside Kabul Airport, or news of gay men being murdered by the Taliban - I’m on a crap holiday in the rain. 

"I've to travel with a budget airline that allows a carry-on bag the size of a pencil case, or pay the equivalent of another seat to bring a change of clothes. Pencil case it is then. I can just wear all my clothes on top of each other."