I'm changing my two-week-old son's nappy. He bursts into tears. His tears explode my heart but I can't comfort him because I'm exploding too, only I wish I had the primal courage to cry out like him.
Alan Bennett’s timeless play about precocious grammar-school boys pushing for Oxbridge is now best remembered for two things: the hilarious refrain “How do I define history? It’s just one f ...