In these difficult times, when tough decisions are required, the differences between Labour and the Tories are becoming much clearer. One party believes in intervention to reduce social and economic costs and the other believes in market forces and letting things take their course.

What the Lib Dems have failed to do is offer any meaningful agenda for government or for power.

When the heart stops for one beat it is desire, when it stops for one life time it is love

You're wrong if you think young people don't deserve the vote.

Surely, the best and most effective measure is to get the economy moving and shorten the period of recession or slowdown. That's the rationale for Gordon Brown's "fiscal stimulus" and it sounds like a good one to me.

Sixteen- and 17-year-olds pay taxes and can join the army, so surely they should in turn be given their right to vote.

The era of industrial Britain, where a large section of our workforce provided cheap labour in factories and processing goods is over.