Roger Scruton is one of our great men of speculation

We do not believe in quotas. They would not only be undesirable, they would be illegal. There is legal protection for the autonomy of universities in running their own admission arrangements.

The DSA scheme has not been reviewed for 25 years

My challenge as university minister is about getting right balance of teaching and research.

Right and wrong matters little when survival matters most.

Death could be waiting for him, but he wasn’t afraid. Whether it be sooner or later, he welcomed the inevitability with open arms.

For years I've been stressing with regard to UFOs that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

We don't have to think up a title till we get the doggone book written.

One of the things I've learned is there's no lesson to be learned. You have to resign yourself to the fact that mistakes are going to be made at any time in the creative process.

Books, the books that I loved above all else to spend my time with, were the great tools for understanding one's life and the lives of other people.

The makeup is simply an extension of the personality and colors, clothing, makeup all express something.

There are good days and there are bad days, and this is one of them.

Our need is so desperate an idea, a thing, a law can't help us. It took one thing, the gift of gifts, God in the flesh, to rescue us.

My yesterdays are all boxed up and neatly put away.