If Margaret Thatcher had been Prime Minister at the time, there would have been no Treaty of Maastricht.

People know they are lacking something, they are constantly wanting some kind of spiritual guidance.

A genuinely democratic Iraq might well act as a fresh spur.

We should be wary of politicians who profess to follow history while only noticing those signposts of history that point in the direction which they themselves already favour.

Silence is regarded as a sort of sin now, and it has to be filled with a lot of gossip and soundbites.

It is normal for politicians in all countries to profess themselves the pupils of history, anxious to draw the right lessons from her teaching.

But Germany will always suffer, I fear, from the intensely dramatic character of the crimes of the Third Reich.