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.

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.

Time is not on Gaddafi's side. People ask about the exit strategy. It's Colonel Gaddafi who needs an exit strategy because this pressure will only mount and it will be intensified over the coming days and weeks.

I described the euro as a burning building with no exits and so it has proved for some of the countries in it.

It is the mission of the next Conservative Government to build the Responsible Society.

I still agree with the invasion of Iraq. I don't agree with most of the decisions that accompanied it.

The British retreat is over and now the advance will begin.