Now I know which came first - the chicken not the egg.

From Caesar's legions to the Napoleonic wars. From the Reformation, the Enlightenment and the industrial revolution to the defeat of nazism. We have helped to write European history, and Europe has helped write ours.

...if we all turned down the thermostat in our house by just one degree, we would save over £650 million worth of energy and nearly nine million tonnes of carbon emissions every year. That would be the equivalent of taking three million cars off our roads...we can bring about a Green Consumer Revolution in this country to improve our lives, enrich our economy and protect our environment.

There is a growing frustration that the EU is seen as something that is done to people rather than acting on their behalf. And this is being intensified by the very solutions required to resolve the economic problems.

It is national parliaments, which are, and will remain, the true source of real democratic legitimacy and accountability in the EU.

Mrs Cameron keeps a rather better weekend diary than I do.

I am just not a great fan of the Piers Morgan format. I would rather do something a bit more substantial.