Your Greatest Achievement Is To Love Me.

Why Can't We Have Those Curves And Arches That Express Feeling In Design? What Is Wrong With Them? Why Has Everything Got To Be Vertical, Straight, Unbending, Only At Right Angles - And Functional?

If You Think About Your And My Grandchildren, This Is What Really Worries Me. I Don't Want Them - If I'm Still Alive By Then - To Say, 'why Didn't You Do Something About It?', When You Could Have Done.

If You Think About The Impact Of Climate Change, [it Should Be How] A Doctor Would Deal With The Problem. A Scientific Hypothesis Is Tested To Absolute Destruction, But Medicine Can't Wait. If A Doctor Sees A Child With A Fever, He Can't Wait For [endless] Tests. He Has To Act On What Is There. The Risk Of Delay Is So Enormous That We Can't Wait Until We Are Absolutely Sure The Patient Is Dying.

It Is Baffling, I Must Say, That In Our Modern World We Have Such Blind Trust In Science And Technology That We All Accept What Science Tells Us About Everything - Until, That Is, It Comes To Climate Science.

I Miss My Grandmother Every Day. I Miss Her Vitality, Her Interest In The Lives Of Others, Her Courage And Determination, Her Perceptive Wisdom, Her Calm In The Face Of All Difficulties, Her Steadfast Belief In The British People And Above All Her Unstoppable Sense Of Mischievous Humour.