However much I dislike the idea of abortion, you should not criminalize a woman who, in very difficult circumstances, makes that choice.

This mass terrorism is the new evil in our world today. It is perpetrated by fanatics who are utterly indifferent to the sanctity of human life, and we the democracies of this world are going to have to come together and fight it together.

What is obviously unfair is that the half of the population that doesn't go to university that's often on lower incomes pays more taxes in order to send other people to university, without them, you know, contributing.

Our tolerance is part of what makes Britain, Britain. Conform to it; or don't come here.

There's a huge wave of anti-establishment feeling. There's an enormous amount of anger. And it's collapsing governments and political movements across the world right now.

The only society that works today is also one founded on mutual respect, on a recognition that we have a responsibility collectively and individually, to help each other on the basis of each other's equal worth. A selfish society is a contradiction in terms.

I may find Saddam Hussein's regime abhorrent - any normal person would - but the survival of it is in his hands.