When you reduce taxes on higher earners it's vital to be reducing them on lower earning people as well so the nation shares in the approach.

The world is not going into concentric blocs of power. It is actually going into a diffusion of power with more centres of decision-making than ever in human civilisation. That requires you to place yourself in far more hubs of power than ever before.

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.

I don't deny that there are problems in the intelligence world, but I would argue that in the UK we try to uphold the highest standards in the world.

It was inevitable the Titanic was going to set sail, but that doesn't mean it was a good idea to be on it.

Britain does not normally these days play a huge part in peacekeeping.

To the teacher weighed down with paperwork, I say: you've been messed around too often. You came into teaching to spend your time teaching children not filling in forms.