London is the sporting capital of the world. I say to the Chinese and I say to the world, ping pong is coming home.

Try as I might, I could not look at an overhead projection of a growth profit matrix and stay conscious.

I want to offer particular congratulations to Andrea Leadsom on her stunning achievement. She is now well placed to win and replace the absurd gloom in some quarters with a positive, confident and optimistic approach, not just to Europe, but to government all round.

This is a super masticated subject, and it is time to spit it out.

Hitler showed the evil that could be done by the art of rhetoric. Churchill showed how it could help to save humanity.

Never in my life did I think I would be congratulated by Mick Jagger for achieving anything.

It is easy to make promises - it is hard work to keep them.