You come home to find your 17-year-old daughter engrossed in a book. Which would delight you more - if it were 'Twilight' or 'Middlemarch?'

I have a different starting premise from those 100 academics who are so heavily invested in the regime of low expectations and narrow horizons which they have created.

Government has got to invest more money in our NHS. The people who work in it are heroic. They do an amazing job.

I am delighted by the support I have received from colleagues. It reflects the optimistic message that I've been putting forward.

Teachers themselves know if there's a colleague who can't keep control or keep the interest of their class, it affects the whole school.

We need to face the fact that we need more money in order to deliver Jeremy Hunt's absolutely correct drive to guarantee even better standards of care.

With the single exception of Park Lane, every north-south route in London slows traffic to the pace of a wounded gnat with pleurisy struggling with a squaddie's backpack.