Advocates of dumbing down should note the wonderfully perverse fact that 'University Challenge' and 'Mastermind' were watched by millions who could hardly even understand the questions, let alone ejaculate the answers. Maybe they just liked to watch smart people sweating. — Declan Lynch Copy Share Image
Sven's actual results on the park were not quite good enough to make him a hero, and not quite bad enough to get him… — Declan Lynch Copy Share Image
The Pope, if nothing else, should be a Catholic. If he were to announce that women would make great priests, except it's a pity… — Declan Lynch Copy Share Image
The seriousness or otherwise of the subject matter is often irrelevent to the question of whether a book is any good. F Scott Fitzgerald… — Declan Lynch Copy Share Image
Liverpool's grand opera also gave us some light comedy - on hearing the news that the house of goalkeeper Pepe Reina was burgled, and… — Declan Lynch Copy Share Image
With the advent of 24-hour Sky News, the News Flash has been greatly devalued. Time was, when something unimaginably horrendous had to happen before… — Declan Lynch Copy Share Image
Inarticulate wretches have been behind most of the major advances in civilization. If Vincent Van Gogh had been able to get on with his… — Declan Lynch Copy Share Image
I just wonder what has been the effect on the human soul of nearly a century in which we have regarded sex on screen… — Declan Lynch Copy Share Image
If there is only 24 hours to save the universe why are you talking to us? — Declan Lynch Copy Share Image
Advocates of dumbing down should note the wonderfully perverse fact that 'University Challenge' and 'Mastermind' were watched by millions who could hardly even understand… — Declan Lynch Copy Share Image
