Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less.

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.

When our backs are against the wall, we must turn around and march forward.

A country of long shadows on county cricket grounds, warm beer, green suburbs, dog lovers, and old maids cycling to holy communion through the morning mist.

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.

When your back is against the wall, there is only one thing to do, and that is turn around and fight.

It is time to return to those core values, time to get back to basics: to self-discipline and respect for the law, to consideration for others, to accepting responsibility for yourself and your family, and not shuffling it off on other people and the state.