It is only if you happen to be a newscaster that the tongue-twister spells peril.
Poets, for example, are generally considered starry-eyed and sensitive, but only by those who have never encountered one.
More and more, I find that the news reads like a particularly random game of Consequences.
More often than not, theatre critics bubble with enthusiasm about plays that are, when all is said and done, really pretty average.
The first thing I hear when I wake up is the sea, which is so close to our house that its reflections from the sun dapple our bedroom ceiling.
By and large, the artistic establishment disapproved of Margaret Thatcher.
The only behaviour that is truly common is to avoid doing something because you think others might consider it common.
Tweeting is the go-to medium for the show-off and the shyster.
Just as there is something about an empty skip that makes you want to fill it, so there is something about a full skip that makes you want to empty it.
Andrew Lloyd Webber is one of those odd moth-like creatures who seem to combine extreme discomfort with the spotlight with an unstoppable compulsion to leap into it.
The news is increasingly full of mismatched people saying daft things to one another.
How I hate the Beautiful Game! I hate its cry-baby players and its gruff, joyless managers, its blokish supporters and its sinister owners, its whistle-peeping referees and its chippy little linesmen, its excitable commentators and - perhaps most of ...
When I tell people I don't own a mobile phone and wouldn't know how to text, they react as though I have just confessed that I can't read.
Traditionally, wake-up calls are meant to wake you up rather than send you to sleep: the clue is in the wording. But those who talk of wake-up calls tend to have an easy-going way with words.
There are few things quite so effortlessly enjoyable as watching an eminent person getting in a huff and flouncing out of a television interview, often with microphone trailing.
Personally, I belong to the speedy school of golf. If it were left up to me, I would introduce a new rule that said every golf ball has to stay in motion from the moment it leaves the tee to the moment it plops into the hole, thus obliging each playe...
What would we do without plaques to tell us who lived where and when? They introduce the past into the present, and are the quickest and most interesting way of reminding us that our streets exist above and beyond the here-and-now.
There's nothing wrong with procrastination. Or is there? I'll leave it to you to decide, but only if you have the time.
People think of waves as going in an orderly crash - whoosh - crash - whoosh, but in fact there are lots of different crashes and whooshes, all at different stages, and all going off at the same time.
Like the firm handshake and looking people straight in the eye, the blazer had originally been a symbol of trust. Because of this, it had been purloined by the less-than-trustworthy and became their preferred disguise.
Men know something that women don't know. Never ask directions of a stranger.
