It was the kind of blind, gulping, insensate greed that you associate with some milk-eyed creature in a volcanic fissure at the bottom of the Marianas Trench-an organism with no understanding of the existence, let alone the feelings, of other members of the ecosystem.

I lead a life of blameless domesticity and always have done.

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

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.

The job of mayor of London is unbelievably taxing, particularly in the run-up to the Olympics.

I am hoping very much to get re-elected but it is going to be a tough fight.

When Cameron's Conservatives come to power it will be a golden age for cyclists and an Elysium of cycle lanes, bike racks, and sharia law for bike thieves. And I hope that cycling in London will become almost Chinese in its ubiquity.