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

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 think the biggest mistake I made was this wretched ability to see both sides of an argument.

In the next ten years we will have to continue to make changes which will make the whole of this country a genuinely classless society.

If you look back historically, admittedly a long time ago, there were three Afghan wars in which Britain didn't even come a good second. In more recent years the Russians were there with 120,000 men for ten years.

Tentacles of terrorism spread everywhere

Neil Kinnock's speeches go on for so long because he has nothing to say and so he has no way of knowing when he's finished saying it.