I think that if politics is just about getting your backside on important seats, then it's a pretty worthless endeavor.

Hong Kong's people will get what they want, despite China's objections. Freedom invariably wins in the end.

Anyone who supposed that when Margaret Thatcher left Number Ten she was going to take a Trappist vow did not know that formidable politician.

Undoubtedly, at the moment, the major cause of CO2 emission is what happens in developed countries.

It is a sort of great Victorian truth that actually, trying to do the right thing is pretty good for you and pretty good for business as well, by and large.

In democracy everyone has the right to be represented, even the jerks.

It is curious that atheists have proved to be so intolerant of those who have a faith.