You Cannot Carry On Forever

Political Reporters No Longer Get To Decide What's News. The Days When A Minister Gave Briefings To A Dozen Lobby Correspondents, And Thereby Dictated The Next Day's Headlines, Are Over. Now, A Thousand Bloggers Decide For Themselves What Is Interesting. If Enough Of Them Are Tickled Then, Bingo, You're News.

I Am Not The Conservative Party's Health Care Spokesman. I'm Fond Of Andrew Lansley, And I Strongly Support David Cameron As Party Leader.

The 'eu In A Nutshell' Is A Miscellany Of Facts And Anecdotes About The System Which Rules Us. It's A Book You Can Delve Into In Pursuit Of A Particular Fact, Or Crack Open For Entertainment At Virtually Any Page.

New Fathers, Political Prisoners, Traumatised Presidential Aides, Resolute Schoolboys, Meps Addressing Unfriendly Chambers - We All Find That Shakespeare Has Magically Anticipated Our Precise Circumstances. How He Was Possible, I Still Don't Understand; But There Isn't A Day I'm Not Grateful That He Speaks To Me In My Own Language.

Europe Tends To Favor Stability Over Democracy, America Democracy Over Stability.