We believe that unless we give opportunity to the strong and able, we shall never have the means to provide real protection for the weak and the old.

A successful current affairs television show seems to be more and more a cross between a music hall turn and a scene in a torture chamber.

(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.

It is, of course, a trite observation to say that we live "in a period of transition." Many people have said this at many times. Adam may well have made the remark to Eve on leaving the Garden of Eden.

Once the bear's hug has got you, it is apt to be for keeps.

It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.

I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts.