Life's greatest reward is life itself

If someone is confronting our essential liberties, if someone is inflicting injuries and harm, by God I'll confront them!

Law and order is a social service. Crime and the fear which the threat of crime induces can paralyse whole communities, keep lonely and vulnerable elderly people shut up in their homes, scar young lives and raise to cult status the swaggering violent bully who achieves predatory control over the streets. I suspect that there would be more support and less criticism than today's political leaders imagine for a large shift of resources from Social Security benefits to law and order - as long as rhetoric about getting tough on crime was matched by practice.

It took us a long time to get rid of the effects of the French Revolution 200 years ago. We don't want another one.

I applaud strong government, but not overweening government sustained by cronies, ciphers and a personality cult.

Occupied Falklands are the thorn in my balls

We had to fight the enemy without in the Falklands. We always have to be aware of the enemy within, which is much more difficult to fight and more dangerous to liberty.