...in just 25 years the glaciers in the Himalayas which provide water for three-quarters of a billion people could disappear entirely.

There is a golden thread which runs through British history of the individual, standing firm against tyranny and then of the individual participating in his society

Britain should be the world's number one center for genetic and stem cell research, building on our world leading regulatory regime in the area.

Boom and bust is a term that applied to the Conservative years and two of the worst recessions in history.

To be a teacher you must be a prophet - because you are trying to prepare people for a world thirty to fifty years into the future.

I think that's a bit unfair. I'm a father with a 2-year-old child and I feel pretty young, actually.

Sometimes it takes a crisis for people to agree that what is obvious and should have been done years ago, can no longer be postponed. We must create a new international financial architecture for the global age.