If life was what you made of it, then it could not be made for you.

A majority in all parties do, I think, want to see local government recover its old vigour and independence.

All the research shows that being married, with all its ups and downs, is by far the most effective way of making young men law-abiding and giving them a sense of purpose and self-worth.

No constitution is or can be perfectly symmetrical, what it can and must be is generally accepted as both fair and usable.

Why should people be expected to think about the meaning of life merely because they happen to be ill? That is just the time when there is no time to think about such things, because the body is so greedy for attention.

We are also further than ever from equality of opportunity.

Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.