What really alarms me about President Bush's 'War on Terrorism' is the grammar. How do you wage war on an abstract noun? How is 'Terrorism' going to surrender? It's well known, in philological circles, that it's very hard for abstract nouns to surrender.

Along with Palin he wrote lyrics for the 1968 Barry Booth album "Diversions". He has written numerous editorials for The Guardian The Daily Telegraph and The Observer condemning the Iraq war. His father was stationed with the RAF in India.

Terence Graham Parry Jones (born 1 February 1942) is a Welsh comedian screenwriter actor film director author political commentator and TV host.