We have got an underlying level of intelligence which shows there is a threat.

While this event has been in progress today, some two million tons of cargo has passed through British ports. The sea-lanes are of vast importance to this country and it is the Royal Navy that guarantees our access to them.

We love Nelson because, like real heroes, he was not perfect. He could be vain and he had his flaws - he even suffered from seasickness. But he was brave and inspired the deepest loyalty, and when it mattered he got it right.

We are doing and will continue to do cordon and search operations based on intelligence tip-offs where we go and raid premises to recover any hidden caches,

I visualized myself pulling on my mental thinking cap, jamming it down around my ears as I had taught myself to do. It was a tall, conical wizard's model, covered with chemical equations and formulae: a cornucopia of ideas.

A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.