I'm Afraid Sadiq Khan Is Completely Wrong.

These Days We Dimly Believe That The Second World War Was Won With Russian Blood And American Money; And Though That Is In Some Ways True, It Is Also True That, Without Churchill, Hitler Would Almost Certainly Have Won.

I Think It Is Going To Be Wonderful. I Went To The Paralympics In Beijing And Have Seen How Brilliant The Sport Is At First Hand. People Are Going To Love It. It Is Going To Change People's Attitudes To Paralympians And It Is Going To Be A Great Show.

I Have Come To The Conclusion That Tony Blair Has Finally Gone Mad ... He Made Assertions That Are So Jaw-droppingly And Breathtakingly At Variance With Reality That He Surely Needs Professional Psychiatric Help.

The Job Of Mayor Of London Is Unbelievably Taxing, Particularly In The Run-up To The Olympics.

Churchill Decides From Very Early On That He Will Create A Political Position That Is Somehow Above Left And Right, Embodying The Best Points Of Both Sides And Thereby Incarnating The Will Of The Nation. He Thinks Of Himself As A Gigantic Keystone In The Arch, With All The Lesser Stones Logically Induced To Support His Position. He Has A Kind Of Semi-ideology To Go With It - A Leftish Toryism: Imperialist, Romantic, But On The Side Of The Working Man.