One look at the stranger staring back re-convinced me that I had to be dreaming. It was me, but at the same time completely not me.

Sethian grabbed my trembling hips in a bruising hold and began to thrust up into me almost violently, capturing my lips again in an equally bruising kiss.

Sethian began, sounding thoughtful. “As I said, last night was more than a night of pleasure. When I brought you into my bed, you became my wife.

My new elf husband wasted no time in carrying me to the bed, then tumbling us both onto the coverlet.

Without an informed electorate, politicians will continue to use the bottom billion merely for photo opportunities, rather than promoting real transformation.

I haven't asked you to make me young again. All I want is to go on getting older.

Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.

It is our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them, and have the honesty to say to people, 'There are no easy solutions here.'

I am a firm believer that you can have the body you want, only to the extent that you're willing to work for it.

And then of course the music sprang up, lousy rock as bold and dull as a giant potato. "Love this song," Todd said, like it was unusually brave to like what was number one on the radio.

I think Obama is possibly the most dangerous and destructive president we have ever had

I missed my home - like the physicality of my home, I missed my friends and my family mostly and just hanging out and being in your home country - culturally it feels right and that is what I miss.

We as human beings like to be cocksure and certain.

As if a woman ever loved a man for his virtue.