Matthew Parris

A Times Biography of the Year Ada Lovelace. Frederick Douglass. Vladimir Lenin. Marie Curie. Frieda Kahlo. Carl Jung. Tupac Shakur. All geniuses who changed the world in ways that still influence our lives today. And all men and women who experienced, in childhood, trauma so severe that it should have broken them completely. While presenting Great Lives on Radio 4,...

"He's 100% political herpes. Back in six months whatever you do. Or three days, like last time." - Camilla Long on Nigel Farage "You're as ugly as a salad." - Bulgarian insult "I'm going to beat him so bad he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on." - Muhammed Ali There's no pleasure like a perfectly-turned put-down (when it's...