I have as much chance of becoming Prime Minister as of being decapitated by a frisbee or of finding Elvis.

Churchill knew instinctively what was wrong with communism - that it repressed liberty; that it replaced individual discretion with state control; that it entailed the curtailment of democracy, and therefore that it was tyrannous.

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!

He is the resounding human rebuttal to all Marxist historians who think history is the story of vast and impersonal economic forces. The point of the Churchill Factor is that one man can make all the difference.

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

I love swimming in rivers, and well remember once jumping in at Chiswick.

London is the sporting capital of the world. I say to the Chinese and I say to the world, ping pong is coming home.