Quote of the day
Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
Roland Huntford

Born: 1927 (age 98)
Bio: Roland Huntford is an author, principally of biographies of Polar explorers. He lives in Cambridge, and was formerly Scandinavian correspondent of The Observer, also acting as their winter sports correspondent.
Known for:
- Scott and Amundsen: Last Place on Earth (1979)
- The New Totalitarians (1971)
- Shackleton (1985)
- Nansen: The Explorer as Hero (1997)