"I must needs say my judgement was for the Parliament, as the King's, and Kingdom's, great and safest Council."

"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…"

"The Dominion of the Sea, as it is an ancient and undoubted right of the Crown of England, so it is the best security …"

"Soon the men of the column began to see that though the scarlet line was slender, it was very rigid and exact."