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...

Nothing excites compassion, in friend and foe alike, as much as the sight of you ker-splonked on the Tarmac with your propeller buried six feet under.

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

Volunteering is also now more crucial than ever in helping people find work.

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

So I'm definitely in favour of stimulating the dynamic wealth creation sectors of the economy.

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.