Nothing could be further from the truth than the claim that we have a choice between cutting tax and cutting unemployment, for the two go hand in hand.

We already have a sabbatical system. It's called opposition, and I've had enough of it.

Gradual and moderate warming brings benefits as well as incurring costs. These benefits and costs will not, of course, be felt uniformly throughout the world; the colder regions of the world will be more affected by the benefits, and the hotter regions by the costs.

I think that the ordinary bloke has an instinctive sense that it wouldn't be too bad if the weather warmed up.

There has always been, and there always will be, an economic cycle.

Hopelessly uneconomic on any substantial scale, since it requires a conventional power back-up for when the wind stops blowing, forests of wind turbines are rightly regarded in most countries as an environmental monstrosity.

It is quite clear that history will record that Margaret Thatcher was the greatest Prime Minister this country has had since Churchill.