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I cannot bear the language TV chefs use - they don't seem able to look at a plate of vegetables without accusing it of sexual activity.
When power is exercised exclusively at the centre, the result is rigidity of rules and alienation of the people subject to those rules.
Think of how we challenged the impression that we taxed for its own sake and that we were hostile to business. We were right to change.
Are you an Israeli? I don't debate with Israelis. I have been misled, sorry. I don't recognise Israel and I don't debate with Israelis.
I first started going to Chelsea games in the mid-Nineties when I lived off the North End Road, ten minutes' walk from Stamford Bridge.
You may fail to shine in the opinion of others, both in our conversation and actions, from being superior, as well as inferior to them.
Can there not be a limit to the fact that really you need to cut your cloth in accordance with what capabilities and finances you have?
The era of industrial Britain, where a large section of our workforce provided cheap labour in factories and processing goods, is over.
Proper history teaching is being crushed under the weight of play-based pedagogy which infantilises children, teachers and our culture.
If we leave the European Union, yes there will be bumps in the road, inevitably, but we will be in a better position to deal with them.
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.
Betting shops have a big impact on encouraging on-street drinking and can often become a centre for disorder and anti-social behaviour.
Im not sure there are enough coaches in the system that can take young talent and consistently get them into the top five in the world.
I'm a Chelsea season-ticket holder, and I've supported them for 37 years, so any judgment of Manchester United by me is seen as biased.
The Catholic Church has never really come to terms with women. What I object to is being treated either as Madonnas or Mary Magdalenes.
Surely the experience of all good men confirms the proposition that without a due measure of private devotions the soul will grow lean.
In reality, we've had more spending, more bureaucracy, more waste and higher costs but without necessary reform nor rising productivity.
Terrorism gravely threatens international peace and security, and as a solution, the power and apparent finality of force are seductive.
Nobody likes a smart alec. Which is why it's always better for your career to be wrong and in company rather than right and on your own.
We've got to get back to old-fashioned politics that's in touch with the people we seek to represent and to avoid self-inflicted wounds.
I have worked out that I am living in London on £27 a day while David Cameron is claiming a damn sight more for his big house in Oxford.
There is lots of evidence that it is this fear of going into debt that most puts people from poorer backgrounds off going to university.
They all said I was a very young guy. Well there is nothing I can do about that but with each day that passes the problem solves itself.
What people have got to remember is that Sept. 11 happened in 2001 and not in 2003. It was planned under the presidency of Bill Clinton.
Teachers themselves know if there's a colleague who can't keep control or keep the interest of their class, it affects the whole school.
Finding out whether I had made the grades for my first choice university course or whether I needed to rethink my future was terrifying.
You don't have to be a political insider to know that Parliament, along with parts of the Government, has colluded in sabotaging Brexit.
A social democratic party without deep roots in the working class movement would quickly fade into an unrepresentative intellectual sect
I'm not sure there are enough coaches in the system that can take young talent and consistently get them into the top five in the world.
Retailers have an important part to play in preventing knife crime - enforcing age restrictions and displaying knives safely is crucial.
It is essential to democracy that the elected representatives of the people make the laws that govern this country - and not the judges.
If you stand at an election and put a manifesto in front of people saying you're going to improve health care, you have to stick by that.
Until suitable alternatives are found, this vital work should continue so that hundreds of millions more lives can be saved in the future
Many people want to scale back their working hours as they near the end of their careers, but not necessarily to give up work altogether.
The terrorist seeks to smash the most fundamental liberty of all: the right to lead our everyday lives on the basic assumption of safety.
I want our party to step up its efforts to reflect and champion the concerns of everybody who has reached the second half of their lives.
Politics means facing up to hard choices and facing down prejudice, short-termism, the easy, tempting court of knee-jerk public reaction.
Though I am probably guilty of indulging in excessive tribalism myself at times, I try to put partisanship to one side where appropriate.
Parenting is more than a numbers game: it's a question of whether people are equipped for the toughest job they will ever be asked to do.
Universities are not like supermarkets: their job is to serve the country, not just the customers who happen to walk through their doors.
There are still substantial areas of disagreement, .. you simply have to look at the public statements to see there is a significant gap.
Obama better understood community organisation and peer-to-peer communication than any recent candidate, and we are applying that lesson.
The first two Prime Ministers whom I served, Ted Heath and Margaret Thatcher drew strikingly different lessons from the Second World War.
Let's start to have a grown up debate in this country about who we are and where we want to go and what kind of country we want to build.
Many retailers have complained bitterly to me about the complexity of the Carbon Reduction Commitment. It's not a commitment; it's a tax.
It does mean, if this is the idea, the end of Britain as an independent European state...it means the end of a thousand years of history.
My roots, my background and the way I act is working class, but it would be hypsocritical to say I'm anything else than middle class now.
I am very proud that Britain has helped to lead a stronger case on climate change in the EU and the EU has led the case across the world.
I will do everything that is required in order to bring immigration down to a level that is manageable, that the public believe is right.
Rising unemployment and the recession have been the price that we have had to pay to get inflation down. That price is well worth paying.