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

Can I say anything good about Ken Livingstone? A long time ago he did some good things, but I can't now remember what any of them were.

I'm no communist.I'm a tax cutting Conservative. But I want a capitalism that is fairer to forgotten people.

David Lloyd George had been to Germany, and been so dazzled by the Führer that he compared him to George Washington. Hitler was a 'born leader', declared the befuddled former British Prime Minister. He wished that Britain had 'a man of his supreme quality at the head of affairs in our country today'. This from the hero of the First World War! The man who had led Britain to victory over the Kaiser!

We should celebrate immigrants and everything they do for our country.

I don't believe that economic equality is possible; indeed some measure of inequality is essential for the spirit of envy and keeping up with the Joneses that is, like greed, a valuable spur to economic activity.

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...