Can I say anything good about Ken Livingstone? A long time ago he did some good things, but I can't now remember what any of them were.

I don't believe that economic equality is possible; indeed some measure of inequality is essential for the spirit of envy and keeping up with the Joneses that is, like greed, a valuable spur to economic activity.

The next Tory leader would have to unify his party and ensure that Britain stood tall in the world.

The job of mayor of London is unbelievably taxing, particularly in the run-up to the Olympics.

Since January 1993 there have been 27 other countries not in the EU that have done better than the UK at exporting goods into the single market.

These days we dimly believe that the Second World War was won with Russian blood and American money; and though that is in some ways true, it is also true that, without Churchill, Hitler would almost certainly have won.

When Cameron's Conservatives come to power it will be a golden age for cyclists and an Elysium of cycle lanes, bike racks, and sharia law for bike thieves. And I hope that cycling in London will become almost Chinese in its ubiquity.