I will be urging him to ensure any shutdown is as painless as possible for local communities,

He never used the phrase 'ethical foreign policy'; instead, he said there should be an 'ethical dimension' to foreign policy.

The thought that... I would say anything on the euro other than what's the government's position is absolutely barmy.

You can't put one of the world's best living novelists on trial and say this is just growing pains.

He seemed young and decisive, able to make the shift from guerrilla leader to political leader, rather like Michael Collins of the Irish Republican Army did in the early 1920s.

It's time for honest language. When a man has sex with a frightened, beaten and intimidated woman there is only one word to describe it, and that is rape,