I remember being in China and realising how irrelevant not even Britain is, but also Europe. We're just another remote country that hardly impinges on some places at all.

I'm a trained lawyer, after all, so I don't have to admit to anything.

I am attached to the west coast of Scotland - it's gorgeous to look at and challenging. You have to contend with the possibility of being blown away or rained on. And in the summer months you can be eaten alive by midges.

The labour Party has lost the last four elections. If they lose another, they get to keep the liberal party.

I do find myself surprised by the comedy shows that seem to have the same joke week in week out.

Gardening has just sort of grown on me. I find it therapeutic. And I like smelly things.

I am going to have to stick to the script. If I muck around with the words it will defeat the object.