Churchill decides from very early on that he will create a political position that is somehow above left and right, embodying the best points of both sides and thereby incarnating the will of the nation. He thinks of himself as a gigantic keystone in the arch, with all the lesser stones logically induced to support his position. He has a kind of semi-ideology to go with it - a leftish Toryism: imperialist, romantic, but on the side of the working man.

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

I'm a one-nation Tory.

You are part of our Great British family.

It just happens I write fast and always have done.

I'm afraid Sadiq Khan is completely wrong. The European Court of Justice is the supreme legal authority in our country.

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