"I pray to God the Scottish King do deceive me, but I am afeared he will not. For my own part, I have made of the Fren…"

"We just didn't understand that they [the Islamists] were not just anti-Western but on a different plane altogether an…"

"First, a police force which has consistently put protecting itself above protecting people harmed by Hillsborough. Se…"

"What we've seen today is a deliberate act of levelling down. I don't believe we can proceed through this pandemic by …"

"[on seeking permission to stand as an MP in 2026] It brings with it a poison we should not let enter our city-region.…"

"Yesterday Andy Burnham sought such permission from the NEC to stand in the Gorton and Denton parliamentary by-electio…"

"Here are six guineas for you. Do not hack me as you did my Lord Russell. I have heard that you struck him three or fo…"

"As, near Porto Bello lying, On the gently swelling flood, At midnight, with streamers flying, Our triumphant navy rode."

"Heed, oh heed! my fatal story, I am Hosier's injur'd ghost; You who now have purchas'd glory At this place where I wa…"

"To have fall'n, my country crying, He has play'd an English part, Had been better far than dying Of a griev'd and bro…"