People who are in politics to be right all the time would be better off taking up fly-fishing. It's less dangerous. Politics that is not applied in the real world and doesn't address the real challenges and paradoxes and agonies is a hobby.

The enemy of idealism is zealotry.

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.

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.

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

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