At a time of such hope and optimism in the Middle East, we cannot let the Libyan government violate every principle of international law and human rights with impunity.

The EU is not a country and it's not going to become a country, in my view, now or ever in the future. It is a group of countries working together.

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.

I'm not, nor is anybody I know in government part of a nasty right wing clique.

One day I will go back to my books and piano, but not yet.

It makes life very simple actually. You could be giving a TV interview in howling gale and it no longer matters.

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.