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I Am A Passionate Believer In Freedom Of Speech. I Would Not Support Anything Which Would Impinge On Aggressive Robust Freedom Of The British Press, But When Things Go Wrong And There Has Been Outright Illegality, There Should Be Proper Accountability.

My Dad's Side Of The Family Had Lots Of Artists And Musicians. There's An Emotional, Quite Sentimental Quality To Slavic Culture. It's Very Open, It Loves Art, It Loves Music, It Loves Literature. It's Very Warm, It's Very Up, It's Very Down. I Would Celebrate That.

Tony Blair And Gordon Brown Committed To John Major's Spending Envelopes In 1997. No-one Said That Tony Blair And John Major Were Identical. This Happens Quite Often That Parties Actually, Despite All The Sound And Fury, Agree On The Overall Need To Make Sure That We Live Within Our Means As A Country.

On The Bskyb Bid, Rupert Murdoch Is Now In Town In London Seeking To Sort Things Out. I Would Simply Say To Him, Look How People Feel About This. Look How The Country Has Reacted With Revulsion To The Revelations. So Do The Decent And Sensible Thing And Reconsider, Think Again, About Your Bid For Bskyb.

I Don't Even Pretend We Can Occupy The Lib Dem Holier-than-thou, Hands-entirely-clean-and-entirely-empty-type Stance. No, We Are Getting Our Hands Dirty, And Inevitably And Totally Understandably We Are Being Accused Of Being Just Like Any Other Politicians.