Having established that good ideas do indeed come in from the cold, start on the fringes and become mainstream, can we make any predictions about what the next move will be?

Any normal and fair-minded person would have a perfect right to be concerned if a group of Romanian people suddenly moved in next door.

We may have made one of the biggest and most stupid collective mistakes in history by getting so worried about global warming.

The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed.

The euro Titanic has now hit the iceberg - and there simply aren't enough lifeboats to go round.

I am married to a girl from Hamburg, so no one need tell me about the dangers of living in a German dominated household.

I think frankly when it comes to chaos you ain't seen nothing yet.

There are two completely different Britains. There's London, and there's the rest of Britain.

It's about mass immigration at a time when 21% of young people can't find work. It's about giving £50 million a day to the EU when the public finances are under great strain.

Maybe this will be the beginning of a trend? Flat taxes, cutting foreign aid, a referendum on Europe, grammar schools. Who knows?

It's about businesses nervous about taking on school leavers because of a mass of red tape. It's about health and safety regulations and green fines.

A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.

Hell is a choice because salvation is available to anyone who seeks it.

Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade.

Politicians are played by what they say and they don't do

A five-year-old Chinese girl knows more about football than I do.

Cowardice rightly understood begins with selfishness and ends with shame.

In my experience, 'let's think about it' usually ends up as me watching Solid Gold in my basement on prom night.

If, while I hear the wild shriek of the slave mother robbed of her little ones, I do not open my mouth, am I not guilty?

We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

I detest imitation, I detest hackneyed devices.