You're just a silly little Whitehall twit: you don't trust me and I don't trust you.

Only a Scotsman can really survive a Scottish education.

In the days when the nation depended on agriculture for its wealth it made the Lord Chancellor sit on a woolsack to remind him where the wealth came from. I would like to suggest we remove that now and make him sit on a crate of machine tools.

Who is going to be the first to face up to the need for self-restraint in the number of children brought into the world?

I therefore suggested that WWF should invite leaders from the major religions to meet together to discuss what - if any - responsibility they felt they had for the natural environment as a "sacred" entity.

I've never been noticeably reticent about talking on subjects about which I know nothing.

If you travel as much as we do, you appreciate the improvements in aircraft design of less noise and more comfort - provided you don't travel in something called economy class, which sounds ghastly.