She is the first head of government in history to give a whole country its second childhood.
Reagan is the only man to take the presidency as a part-time job, a means of filling up the otherwise empty hours of retirement.
Peter Mandelson is the only man I know who can skulk in broad daylight.
Some government expenditure actually makes a profit. Our theatre leads the world. Loads of tourists must be attracted by the fact that you could spend a week in London doing nothing but visit superb museums and galleries, free.
It's sad that the BBC is toning down Dennis the Menace for a cartoon series. He is losing his weapons, catapult and peashooter, will no longer pick on Walter the Softy, and his ferocious grimace is to be replaced by a charming, boyish smile.