It is absolutely right that President Reagan considers SDI and thank goodness people considered nuclear research before the last war.

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.

For Dicey, writing in 1885, and for me reading him some seventy years later, the rule of law still had a very English, or at least Anglo-Saxon, feel to it. It was later, through Hayek's masterpieces "The Constitution of Liberty" and "Law, Legislation and Liberty" that I really came to think this principle as having wider application.

Rogue states never turn out to be quite the pariahs they are deemed. They are only able to cause, or at least threaten to cause, mayhem because they enjoy the covert support - usually by means of technology transfers - of one or more major powers within the charmed circle of global 'good guys'.

There are no personal sympathies in politics.

We do not achieve happiness or salvation in isolation from each other but as members of society

We Conservatives hate unemployment.