I was cleaning out the pigsty at a farm in Wales, where my mother had rented a room, when the results of my final school exam were handed to me by the postman, along with the news that I had a state scholarship to Oxford. I had waited for this letter for so many weeks that I had abandoned hope, deci
“Most of the major increases in the debt ceiling have been accompanied by structural changes in the way we raise and spend money.”
“I think the set looks great. It's kind of like Battlestar Galactica meets like the Italian furniture fair.”