The intolerance of the Middle, and even later, Ages, is a fact all too familiar to every one.

The state is there to serve the citizen, not the reverse.

We campaigned on the fact that we were going to have to take difficult decisions because of the state of the public finances. When we got into government we discovered that actually the public finances were in an even worse state than we thought.

There are a lot of people who are trying hard to sell themselves as Russian vodkas.