Young people are at risk of being disinherited from their community if that community lacks the courage and confidence to teach its history.

Nobody should underestimate how much the world changed on the 11th of September 2001.

I accept that in a free society you have to justify reductions in people's liberties. I accept that, bearing in mind my starting point is that the most important human right is the right to life.

The most important civil liberty... is to stay alive and to be free from violence and death.

When the term Christian or even Protestant is used, it seldom refers to any particularly evangelical doctrine or way of life. More often it refers to a religion accepted by the large majority, which assures them that God is not so much a Lord who demands obedience as a handyman who is available whenever we need help.

The bicycle is a curious vehicle. Its passenger is its engine.

I think when people talk about civil liberties, they sometimes forget that action taken to protect the citizen against physical violence and physical attack is a blow in favour and not a blow against civil liberties.