If gay marriage was OK ... then I saw no reason in principle why a union should not be consecrated between three men, as well as two men; or indeed three men and a dog.

This is our chance to build a Britain where everyone benefits from the success of the economy.

We need to look at our nannying, mollycoddled, politically correct culture in my view, which stops kids from going out and playing competitive sport. I also think we need to look at the shear fatness of the regulations which control people who want to help kids play sport.

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

It was the kind of blind, gulping, insensate greed that you associate with some milk-eyed creature in a volcanic fissure at the bottom of the Marianas Trench-an organism with no understanding of the existence, let alone the feelings, of other members of the ecosystem.

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

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