There is no reason why the US and the UK cannot have close relations.
My London constituency in Hackney has one of the highest levels of gun crime in the country. But the problem is no longer confined to inner city areas. Gun crime has spread to communities all over Britain.
My mother liked Jim Reeves. I hated his records. He was unbearable.
Outsiders often have an insight that an insider doesn't quite have.
I'm a West Indian mum and West Indian mums will go to the wall for their children.
In politics, the people I most despise are those who have no values.