Socialists cry “Power to the people”, and raise the clenched fist as they say it. We all know what they really mean - power over people, power to the State.

It is important not to allow ever wider coalition-building to become an end in itself. As we saw in the Gulf War of 1990, international pressures, particularly those exerted from within an alliance, can result in the failure to follow actions through and so leave future problems unresolved.

The Third World is very much like the First World - just poorer: what works for the West will work for the rest as well.

The Government wants a peaceful settlement. But we totally reject a peaceful sell-out.

A man who, beyond the age of 26, finds himself on a bus can count himself as a failure.

You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.

I have made it quite clear that a unified Ireland was one solution that is out. A second solution was a confederation of two states. That is out. A third solution was joint authority. That is out-that is a derogation of sovereignty.