If you look back historically, admittedly a long time ago, there were three Afghan wars in which Britain didn't even come a good second. In more recent years the Russians were there with 120,000 men for ten years.
"Government gets things right" does not encourage sales. "Government makes another blunder" does encourage sales, so there's a commercial imperative that pushes sensationalism.
There are more myths about Black Wednesday than the Greeks ever created.
I don't think it's the role of the prime minister to court the press.
I think we can get respect for Parliament back providing governments and oppositions are frank.
What happens when there is a conflict between the Scottish parliament, if it was established, and the Westminster parliament? Who is supreme?
Liberty is equally desirable to the good and to the bad, to the brave and to the dastardly.
I like the best of the British press. The best of the British press is very good.
I'm not about to write my memoirs. Not for a long time.
[on Queen Mother] Our country is the richer for her life and the poorer at her death.
Well what would happen is that if Greece defaulted and couldn't pay its debts, all the Greek bonds that are held in other banking systems across Western Europe would suddenly have no value. You could as a knock-on effect create a banking crisis in Western Europe.
I'm very proud of what my parents achieved and what they stood for. They didn't have much, but in many ways they were richer than most.
My father was 64 when I was conceived, my mother 38, which was late for babies in the 1940s.
The argument that someone is a bad man is an inadequate argument for war and certainly an inadequate and unacceptable argument for regime change.
You've had an extremely weak euro on the foreign exchange markets, you've had a very dubious policy being followed.
Life is full of surprises.
Well British troops are superb in the field in terms of conflict.
In the next ten years we will have to continue to make changes which will make the whole of this country a genuinely classless society.
Tentacles of terrorism spread everywhere
I will turn directly to the Asylum Bill later.
The world has gone through tremendous change recently; both nationally andinternationally.
Ronnie Barker will forever be remembered as one of the great comic actors.
Certainly we've seen the enormous changes across the whole of the Middle East. The democratic genie is out of the bottle.
I think the majority of the British people are still sanguine about the need for war.
When I was in office the fundraising was done by the party treasurers.
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