The Neolithic culture from 8000 to 6000 B.C., however, was a brilliant period of the revival of crafts, the transformation of gathering into gardening, the growth of a cross-cultural obsidian trade, and the rise of towns.

I felt they expected me to say clever things, and I never could think of any till after the party was over.

Tony Blair and Gordon Brown are the Arthur Daleys of British politics, according to the Conservative leader.

In these aspects the relationship seems almost to follow an archetype of the relations between immigrant Jewish fathers and their talented sons in modern times. All such sons have been, in a sense, father-slayers.