‘These illiberal liberals, who then flirted with Stalinism as they do today with Islamism, are as contemptuous as ever of what Orwell meant by the middle-class virtues’

‘Absolutely no one believes that the earth could produce 17 times as much oil as today. The stuff simply is not there’

The Return of History and the End of Dreams by Robert Kagan

Terror and Consent by Philip Bobbitt

The world reacted with horror when it saw a 12-year-old boy shot dead by Israeli soldiers. But the footage, it transpires, told a lie

‘Few opinion-shapers in the West feel outraged enough to condemn it, let alone grasp what is at stake in the Hariri tribunal’

‘Shame on you, ladies, for showing so little pride in your own hard-won Western freedoms’

Some things I believe

‘In a fiercely competitive global economy, taxes should be lower. So as Chancellor I will approach each Budget looking to see if we can reduce taxes as well as reform them.’

‘The one education reform no government has tried is putting parents firmly in control’