If Gordon Brown follows Blair's modernization agenda, he will lead the party to defeat at the next election.

The nation's energy needs will be hostage to politically unstable states unless the government's energy policy promotes clean coal technology and new nuclear power build.

The people who will decide the next parliament will be the four who hold the Maori Party seats.

For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.

[Derek Walker, a spokesman for the Maryland Democratic Party, said the episode had nothing to do with the party's view of a Steele candidacy.] This is a one-time stupid mistake by a couple of young people who were willing to take responsibility immediately, ... That's what this is about.

The easiest thing they can do is not go to class anymore, go out and party, take their frustrations out on people on the street. When you work so hard for something and all of the sudden it gets taken away, you get frustrated. You get angry.