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

These days we dimly believe that the Second World War was won with Russian blood and American money; and though that is in some ways true, it is also true that, without Churchill, Hitler would almost certainly have won.

It hasn't taken them long, they began by telling us they would have a positive and patriotic case and they're back to project fear within minutes. There they go again they have nothing positive to say.

The volunteering spirit of Londoners is part of what makes this the best big city on earth.

Try as I might, I could not look at an overhead projection of a growth profit matrix and stay conscious.

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

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.