My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it.

Dark forces dragged me away from the keyboard, swirling forces of irresistible intensity and power.

Ping-pong was invented on the dining tables of England in the 19th century, and it was called Wiff-waff! And there, I think, you have the difference between us and the rest of the world. Other nations, the French, looked at a dining table and saw an opportunity to have dinner; we looked at it an saw an opportunity to play Wiff-waff.

Churchill knew instinctively what was wrong with communism - that it repressed liberty; that it replaced individual discretion with state control; that it entailed the curtailment of democracy, and therefore that it was tyrannous.

Humanity would have plunged into a new dark age of absolutely frightening and appalling characteristics without Churchill.

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

This is not a time to quail, it is not a crisis, nor should we see it as an excuse for wobbling or self-doubt. But it is a moment for hope...