The difference between Hitler's speeches and Churchill's speeches was that Hitler made you think he could do anything; Churchill made you think you could do anything.

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

It just happens I write fast and always have done.

My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it.

I think I was once given cocaine but I sneezed so it didn't go up my nose. In fact, it may have been icing sugar.

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.

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.