A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.
Whenever the debate moves on to hard numbers - our deficit with Europe, our surplus with the rest of the world, our Brussels budget contributions, the tiny part of our economy dependent on sales to the EU, the vast part subjected to EU regulation - Euro-enthusiasts quickly shift their ground and sta
By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with.