A little nonsense now and then is not a bad thing - where would we politicians be if we were not allowed to talk it sometimes.

We must be mad, literally mad, as a nation to be permitting the annual inflow of some 50,000 dependents, who are for the most part the material of the future growth of the immigrant-descended population. It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre.

If in the words which the Secretary of State has just used, the use of a nuclear weapon is to be avoided 'at all costs'. what is the point of having one?

If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends.

History is littered with the wars which everybody knew would never happen.

In the end, the Labour party could cease to represent labour. Stranger historic ironies have happened than that.

I do not keep a diary. Never have. To write a diary every day is like returning to one's own vomit.