‘My quasi-Freudian theory about Gordon Brown is that he reminds the electorate collectively of Daddy’

‘Higher-rate taxpayers will just move to tax havens when the 50 per cent rate is introduced in April 2010’

‘If teenagers want to pick up rubbish in parks or read to the blind, nothing prevents them — apart from red tape. Most do not do community work simply because they do not want to’

‘The British body politic, once so widely imitated throughout the world, now resembles an empty husk’