I Have A Different Starting Premise From

In This Fallen World, I Suspect We Will Never Achieve Perfection. But That Won't Stop Me Trying.

I'm Clear That We Do Need To Improve What's Happening In Our Schools.

We Need A National Ambition To Build Hundreds Of Thousands Of New Homes A Year, Both Private And Socially-rented - Led By Someone Who Will Not Take No For An Answer And Who Will Push For Diggers In The Ground And Homes For All Come What May.

One Of Reasons I Was Able To Go To University Was Because Of The Sacrifices My Family Made.

Why ... Do The Myths Of America The Hateful Take Such Powerful Hold? Because Anti-americanism Provides A Useful Emotional Function Which Goes Beyond Logic And Reaches Deep Into The Darker Recesses Of The European Soul. In Centuries Past Those On The Left Who Wished To Personalise Their Hatred Of Capitalism, Who Sought To Make It Emotionally Resonant By Fastening An Envious Political Passion On To A Blameless Scapegoat People, Embraced Anti-semitism. It Was The Socialism Of Fools. Which Is What Anti-americanism Is Now.