Gordon Brown promised to abolish boom and bust. He has kept half his promise.

Inspiring scenes of people taking the future of their countries into their own hands will ignite greater demands for good governance and political reform elsewhere in the world, including in Asia and in Africa.

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

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?

I don't think a wise thing at this moment is for Israel to launch a military attack on Iran.

You have to have as many defences in place as you possibly can. But even then of course - and it's important to stress this - you cannot guarantee being able to prevent every attack or every kind of attack.

I've always been opposed myself to prisoners having the vote.