Finally, there's a sense in which I look at this Westminster village and London intelligentsia as an outsider.

In Geneva, I was seen as an outsider. In the U.S., I was considered Eurotrash. And in London, I'm seen as an American.

I don't think you can have pain and soul-searching doing the right thing for your child.

I'm not the only Labour MP who sent their child to public school but I'm the only one who's questioned about it.

I was a postman one Christmas and I developed a morbid fear of dogs.

The honest truth is that if this government were to propose the massacre of the first-born, it would still have no difficulty in getting it through the Commons.