The EU should be concentrated on adapting to globalisation and global competitiveness, not building more powerful centralised institutions in Brussels.

People feel that the EU is a one-way process, a great machine that sucks up decision-making from national parliaments to the European level until everything is decided at that level.

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

There's only one growth strategy: work hard.

For the security of the UK, it matters a lot for Somalia to become a more stable place.

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

How long do Syrian families have to live in fear that their children will be killed or tortured, before the Security Council will act? How many people need to die before the consciences of world capitals are stirred?