The British don't runaway from terrorism. We have had 30-odd years of terrorism in our own country from the Irish Republican Army. We're used to it.

I don't think nations can stand aside for ethnic cleansing and genocide.

Certainly we've seen the enormous changes across the whole of the Middle East. The democratic genie is out of the bottle.

Ronnie Barker will forever be remembered as one of the great comic actors.

I am walking over hot coals suspended over a deep pit at the bottom of which are a large number of vipers baring their fangs.

I inherited a sick economy and passed on a sound one. But one abiding regret for me is that, in between, I did not have the resources to put in place the educational and social changes about which I cared to much; I made only a beginning, and it was not enough.

In housing in the fifties in Britain and the sixties, we pulled down the terraces - destroyed whole communities and replaced them with tower blocks and we built walkways that became rat-runs for muggers. That was the fashionable opinion. But it was wrong.