I know people are fickle.

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.

Elected presidents are for countries.

People feel that in too many ways the EU is something that is done to them, not something over which they have a say.

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

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 believe we should reframe our response to climate change as an imperative for growth rather than merely being a way of being green or meeting environmental commitments.