These days there are not enough of such intermediary groups, between the state and the individual, with the result that political leaders are often unduly guided by opinion polls.

Any union that can't accept workers choosing their own representatives through universal franchise is finished.

...within ten years 80% of our economic legislation, perhaps even fiscal and social as well' would come from the EU.

Therefore one should speak at the same time of national citizenship and wider European citizenship.

My problem is how to find the best way of being useful.

I would not be opposed to devising a new system of pensions, in which one part was based on collective provision, but which also gave incentives for people to take out an additional, personal plan.

The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an inalienable right to welfare, no matter what happens to the world, that's not equity, it's just creating a society where you can't ask anything of people.