When these things were built 100 or 300 years ago, they just dug a ditch. There are places where the water goes through tight clay soil and it doesn't leak much - and others where it's gravel and it leaks like a sieve.

If we have another winter like this past one we've had, we almost certainly will run out of water some time during next year's season.

My biggest objection to Marxism has been the presumption that industry should exist at all. I think the unstoppable juggernaut which is global warming demonstrates that processing natural materials on an industrial scale is a suicidal practice.

I did the first album, and it did much better than anyone expected.

In a sense, there is no such thing as a bargain in computing. Models which are popular sell for the price they are supposed to fetch for the best part of their product cycle.

Competitiveness demands flexibility, choice and openness - or Europe will fetch up in a no-man's land between the rising economies of Asia and market-driven North America.