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.

Ambition is best tempered with self-knowledge!

The Bill of Rights was intended to secure freedom of speech - the freedom of speech of members of parliament to speak freely rather than be at threat of... the threat of an over powerful monarch at the time.

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

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.

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.

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