I believe there is a moral sense and a global ethic that commands attention from people of every religion and every faith, and people of no faith. But I think what's new is that we now have the capacity to communicate instantaneously across frontiers right across the world.

We must then build a proper relationship between the richest and the poorest countries based on our desire that they are able to fend for themselves with the investment that is necessary in their agriculture, so that Africa is not a net importer of food, but an exporter of food.

I did maths for a year at university. I don't think I was very good at it. And some people would say it shows.

In 2005 we have a once in a generation opportunity to deliver a modern Marshall plan for the developing world.

I'm a father; that's what matters most. Nothing matters more.

Britain was set to repeat the boom-bust cycle that led to 15 per cent. interest rates for one whole year in the early 1990s.

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