There is no meeting of minds, no point of understanding with such terror. Just a choice: Defeat it or be defeated by it. And defeat it we must.

We in a sense went for the Bernie Sanders model OK? Now we're also in turmoil as a result of this result.

Ah yes, liberal democrats unified as ever in opportunism and in error.

Where radical Islamism is going to be a factor, it's going to be very, very tough.

In April 1991, after the Gulf war, Iraq was given 15 days to provide a full and final declaration of all its WMD.

Actually the royal family were very gracious and good to me. But I also found that the British establishment were never quite sure what to make of me. I was a Labour figure, but I'd come from a very middle-class background. In one sense I offended both traditional right and traditional left. But I thought that was no bad thing.

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