QI a very good job." In September 2018, while responding to a question on equal pay at the Women's Equality Party's conference, Toksvig revealed that she receives 40% of what Stephen Fry was being paid as the host of "QI", which is the same amount as Alan Davies. Talent fees for "QI" are managed by Talkback. "QI" was received very positively by its viewers. It was the most popular programme on BBC Four in 2005, and one of its books, "The Book of General Ignorance", became a global bestseller for Christmas 2006. "QI" has been supported by nearly all critics. Peter
The World Is What It Is The World Is What It Is The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul is a biography of the Nobel Prize-winning author V. S. Naipaul by Patrick French. It was published in 2008 (by Picador in the UK and Knopf in the USA). The title is a quotation from Naipaul's book "A Bend in the River". "The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it." French deals with Naipaul's family background and his life from his birth in 1932 until his second marriage