France was divided over the Dreyfus affair. Racial politics - as seen since the advent of One Nation on to the Australian political scene, and the wider adoption of its policies - has divided Australia.

Germany had a balancing function not only in European politics but in the European Union, between Britain and France, between Western Europe and Eastern Europe, and between Europe and the United States.

They're going to be two very different performances. There is a big difference in going to France and playing there and playing at Twickenham. Two defeats for England is unusual in the Six Nations and they will want to make sure it's not three.

I urge everyone from the center and left of British politics to give Blair a bloody nose at the general election and vote for the Liberal Democrats,

It's so needed to bring God into politics.

Katrina gets you to Iraq. It gets you to petroleum. It gets you to presidential politics. It has laid bare so many cracks and fissures in our system.