I think we need to just be very clear about what we're trying to do in Afghanistan. Frankly, we're not trying to create the perfect democracy. We're never going to create some ideal society. We are simply there for our own national security.

Government has the power to help improve well-being

The news that Osama Bin Laden is dead will bring great relief to people across the world. Osama Bin Laden was responsible for the worst terrorist atrocities the world has seen - for 9/11 and for so many attacks, which have cost thousands of lives, many of them British.

People are increasingly frustrated that decisions taken further and further away from them mean their living standards are slashed through enforced austerity or their taxes are used to bail out governments on the other side of the continent.

You can be walking down the street for a chat, but until you've got the selfie out of the way, people aren't ready to talk.

It's time we admitted that there's more to life than money, and it's time we focused not just on GDP, but on GWB - general well-being.

If you can work and if you're offered a job and you don't take it, you cannot continue to claim benefits. It will be extremely tough.