Miranda Seymour

It's time that we gave our children what we owe them, which is a richer understanding of the past and of the importance of all that Germany has done for England and that England has done for Germany.

I was brought up by my father to think that the best thing in life was to be charming, to have a nice smile, always to be liked.

It's such a release to show yourself as not a charming person but just someone who is vulnerable.

Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?

Most people don't know what they spend in every single area, but they know they have a problem in particular areas.

When I was growing up, my idea of a writer was someone like Sven Hassel, that mysterious Danish author who wrote thrillers about men clambering over walls and getting tangled in barbed wire.