There are big questions about the sort of skills you need in modern government today. You put politicians in charge of billions of dollars with absolutely no training and very little support system around them. It's an extraordinary thing.

The Iraq Survey Group has already found massive evidence of a huge system of clandestine laboratories.

I think social media is a revolutionary phenomenon all in itself.

Nothing is more important to England's arrangements for the World Cup than the state of David Beckham's foot.

But as I always say to people I'm essentially a public service person.

I cannot think of any circumstances in which a government can go to war without the support of parliament.

What I don't know is whether there is a way politically that you can beat away these, some of these populist movements because in the end I don't think they really do provide answers. They ride the anger. But they don't really have the answers. Or whether this is an experiment we're just going to have to go through first.