I pride myself on being courteous to people, and trying to fashion good relations.
There's no point in worrying about things you can't influence.
I'm supremely uninterested as to what is written in many of the newspapers.
I don't want to crawl over the entrails of past disputes.
It is quite wrong for party conferences to be used as an excuse for the Commons not to sit. Conferences could be held at weekends.
If someone is being very cheeky, it can be quite fun to deal with that situation.