This is a super masticated subject, and it is time to spit it out.

The job of mayor of London is unbelievably taxing, particularly in the run-up to the Olympics.

I think it is going to be wonderful. I went to the Paralympics in Beijing and have seen how brilliant the sport is at first hand. People are going to love it. It is going to change people's attitudes to Paralympians and it is going to be a great show.

When my father began his work in the 1970s it was a very different EU. I pay tribute to what he did. But it has now become a very different proposition: the United States of Europe.

My speaking style was criticised by no less an authority than Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was a low moment, my friends, to have my rhetorical skills denounced by a monosyllabic Austrian cyborg.

The Lib Dems are not just empty. They are a void within a vacuum surrounded by a vast inanition.

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