Do you seriously propose that they are going to be so insane as to allow tariffs to be imposed. The EU is, I'm afraid a job destroying engine. You can see it all across southern Europe, you can see it, alas, in our country.

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

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.

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.

My chances of being PM are about as good as the chances of finding Elvis on Mars, or my being reincarnated as an olive.

Dark forces dragged me away from the keyboard, swirling forces of irresistible intensity and power.

The only reason I wouldn't go to some parts of New York is the real risk of meeting Donald Trump.