How long do Syrian families have to live in fear that their children will be killed or tortured, before the Security Council will act? How many people need to die before the consciences of world capitals are stirred?
Not all politicians are bonkers, but most of them are.
When the Lord Chancellor violates the trust of his great office of state to solicit party donations from people whose careers he can control, and then says I’m not sorry, and I’d do it again no wonder the public think that power has gone to their heads.
Gordon Brown promised to abolish boom and bust. He has kept half his promise.
People work hard and save hard to own a car. They do not want to be told that they cannot drive it by a Deputy Prime Minister whose idea of a park and ride scheme is to park one Jaguar and drive away in another.
The British retreat is over and now the advance will begin.
One day I will go back to my books and piano, but not yet.
You can gain in your effectiveness as a politician from a wide acquaintance with the world and from a degree of independence that having some outside interests gives.
We hope that the long darkness through which the Burmese people have lived may now be coming to an end.
Whatever happens in Mogadishu, in Somalia, will happen in Great Britain. We have interlocking interests.
It makes life very simple actually. You could be giving a TV interview in howling gale and it no longer matters.
Today further EU targeted sanctions on Syria come into force. The message is clear and unambiguous: those responsible for the repression will be singled out and held accountable.
The world is not going into concentric blocs of power. It is actually going into a diffusion of power with more centres of decision-making than ever in human civilisation. That requires you to place yourself in far more hubs of power than ever before.
When you reduce taxes on higher earners it’s vital to be reducing them on lower earning people as well so the nation shares in the approach.
We have to face the reality of climate change. It is arguably the biggest threat we are facing today.
Those who back the Syrian regime from now on will find themselves in an even more isolated and indefensible minority.
There is no budget for travel for a Shadow Foreign Secretary.
The total economy of Latin America is bigger than China.
The low carbon economy is at the leading edge of a structural shift now taking place globally.
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.