I love swimming in rivers, and well remember once jumping in at Chiswick.
If we judged everybody by the stupid, unguarded things they blurt out to their nearest and dearest, then we wouldn’t ever get anywhere.
My friends, as I have discovered myself, there are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters.
I think it’s absolutely amazing and how the Remain side have the cheek to come and tell us that we improve our security by staying in this organisation I do not understand.
I’m a one-nation Tory.
It just happens I write fast and always have done.
I lead a life of blameless domesticity and always have done.
I want to offer particular congratulations to Andrea Leadsom on her stunning achievement. She is now well placed to win and replace the absurd gloom in some quarters with a positive, confident and optimistic approach, not just to Europe, but to government all round.
I want to win and I want to be in office.
He is like some sherry-crazed old dowager who has lost the family silver at roulette, and who now decides to double up by betting the house as well.
I am hoping very much to get re-elected but it is going to be a tough fight.
As a Scot Gordon Brown will find it hard to convince people in England he should be prime minister.
We need to remember that we can’t compete endlessly with other nations that set their income taxes substantially lower than ours. They will attract jobs, and investment. They may generate more tax – and they may even persuade their tennis champs to run that extra half yard.
I would ban sweets from school – but this pressure to bring in healthy food is too much.
Can I say anything good about Ken Livinstone? A long time ago he did some good things, but I can’t now remember what any of them were.
You are part of our Great British family.
I think it is going to be wonderful. I went to the Paralympics in Beijing and have seen how brilliant the sport is at first hand. People are going to love it. It is going to change people’s attitudes to Paralympians and it is going to be a great show.
Life isn’t like coursework, baby. It’s one damn essay crisis after another.
I’d like thousands of schools as good as the one I went to, Eton.
It was the kind of blind, gulping, insensate greed that you associate with some milk-eyed creature in a volcanic fissure at the bottom of the Marianas Trench-an organism with no understanding of the existence, let alone the feelings, of other members of the ecosystem.