Now, again, what the center ground has got to do is to respond to people's genuine concerns and fears.

Do I know I'm right? Judgements aren't the same as facts. Instinct is not science. I'm like any other human being as fallible and as capable of being wrong. I only know what I believe.

The blunt truth about the politics of climate change is that no country will want to sacrifice its economy in order to meet this challenge.

Stirring is OK. It just depends what happens in the end.

September 11 was, and remains, above all an immense human tragedy. But September 11 also posed a momentous and deliberate challenge not just to America but to the world at large. The target of the terrorists was not only New York and Washington but the very values of freedom, tolerance and decency which underpin our way of life.

There are unquestionably links between al-Qaida and Iraq.

All the evidence here, for example, in Britain, is that migrants, particularly from the rest of Europe, who come here contribute far more in taxes.