I'm prepared to take advice on leisure from Prince Philip. He's a world expert on leisure. He's been practicing it for most of his adult life.

I take notice of those who have argued consistently for the modernisation of the E.U., but so many of the skeptics in Britain are just hostile to the whole European idea.

No prime minister in Britain will ever be able to go to war without the endorsement of a majority of the House of Commons.

Mobile phones are the only subject on which men boast about who's got the smallest.

The Parthenon without the marbles is like a smile with a tooth missing.

In the U.K. the far Right is a stain on society and there is a cultural resistance to it.

Political renegades always start their career of treachery as 'the best men of all parties' and end up in the Tory knackery.