I'm A One-nation Tory.

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.

But If People Want To Swim In The Thames, If They Want To Take Their Lives Into Their Own Hands, Then They Should Be Able To Do So With All The Freedom And Exhilaration Of Our Woad-painted Ancestors.

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 Love Swimming In Rivers, And Well Remember Once Jumping In At Chiswick.

You Know, Sometimes I Don't Understand What's Wrong With Us. This Is Just About The Most Creative And Imaginative Country On Earth—and Yet Sometimes We Just Don't Seem To Have The Gumption To Exploit Our Intellectual Property. We Split The Atom, And Now We Have To Get French Or Korean Scientists To Help Us Build Nuclear Power Stations. We Perfected The Finest Cars On Earth—and Now Rolls-royce Is In The Hands Of The Germans. Whatever We Invent, From The Jet Engine To The Internet, We Find That Someone Else Carts It Off And Makes A Killing From It Elsewhere.