America's critics can be heard everywhere. It is too much in love with money - worshipping the god of the marketplace, the golden calf. It has too much money, seven of the top 10 banks, eight of the top 10 companies etc. It is too stingy, giving away less of its wealth than other countries. It is vulgar, a rich barbarian.

Simplicity is the outcome of technical subtlety; it is the goal, not the starting point.

There is no rivalry between Google and traditional advertising.

The Tories win elections when they lead on economic competence.

I'm instinctively a Conservative.

My mother was very protective of her four boys.

Politics is not a world for the squeamish or fainthearted.