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

Margaret Thatcher, growing up in a bombed and battered Britain, derived a distrust which has grown with the years not just of Germany but of all continental Europe.

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

Ten Downing Street is a house, not an office. That is its most important characteristic.

The tragedy of 9/11 galvanised the American superpower into action, leaving us in Europe divided in its wake.

History provides no precise guidelines.

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