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

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.

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.

I have been unsure, from the start, what the Occupy movement was all about, although I did suspect that it was just fatuous, anti-enterprise, left-wingery.

Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that.

When birds look into houses, what impossible worlds they see.

I like an interesting movie even if it's controversial or offensive, depending on your taste.

To make headway, improve your head.

Nowadays you need so much money to be able to launch a new artist, notably in America; you would hardly believe the sums involved.

Young Frank Pastore may have pitched the biggest victory of 1979. Maybe the biggest victory of the year!

You can not make someone love you. You can not be thin enough or white enough or famous enough. The choice is entirely the other person's. Then again, you might try hypnosis.

Yet, when one thinks of it, diplomacy without force is a but a rotten reed to lean upon.

Friendship inspires and enriches the lives of those who come together.

Let the world know why you're here, and do it with passion.