The crucial thing is to look in an informed way at what's going on. Look at the way in which we are forced by our imbalanced system to push away people who might contribute mightily to the NHS.

I dont see why people are so snooty about Channel Five. It has some respectable documentaries about the Second World War. It also devotes considerable airtime to investigations into lap-dancing, and other related and vital subjects

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.

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

The Geiger-counter of Olympomania is going to go zoink off the scale.

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.

This is our chance to build a Britain where everyone benefits from the success of the economy.