Turning away Turkey from the EU would be a great, long-term - a century-long - error by Europe.

Not all politicians are bonkers, but most of them are.

I know people are fickle.

If some of the people who write about mojo came with me for a week, they would drop dead on their feet.

Whatever happens in Mogadishu, in Somalia, will happen in Great Britain. We have interlocking interests.

Governments that use violence to stop democratic development will not earn themselves respite forever. They will pay an increasingly high price for actions which they can no longer hide from the world with ease, and will find themselves on the wrong side of history.

I described the euro as a burning building with no exits and so it has proved for some of the countries in it.