Nobody has a magic lamp which can tell you in advance whether what you say will be effective in persuading an audience.

Speaking up for America has become a lonely ordeal.

I'm instinctively a Conservative.

Advertising holding companies used to boast about their share of the advertising market. Now they are proud of how much of their business is not in advertising.

It's my view that human dignity - an attribute which for years has been taken by the Left in British politics - resides in fact in Tory values of independence, individuality and self determination.

I write in the most distressingly slow way in terms of punctuation and grammar.

The Tories win elections when they lead on economic competence.