Newport has the reputation of being wealthy, and there is some of that. It can also be a bit conservative, like a lot of New England.

His reputation is one of an extremely smart, hard-line conservative. Even those on the left, who disagree with his politics, really agree that he is very, very smart.

It has been quite a ride. I guess I coach better with sleep deprivation.

The two toughest things in high school basketball are handling backcourt pressure and getting the offense started. If you don't have a good point guard, you're going to have trouble with both.

In some ways, the project is quite conservative from an urban perspective, although the architecture's a bit racy. London is basically made of houses. Seventy percent of buildings in London are houses. Houses are what create the public space in the city - streets, squares etc. So when I started, I thought: We're not designing a housing scheme, we're designing a piece of the city, and that should be the starting point for many housing schemes.

We have to stress our conservative credentials and emphasize that we are the natural, national alternative to the Liberals. Clearly the Alliance has shown it can't break out of its Western box. The Alliance is at single-digit support in three quarters of the country.