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...David Cameron: Yes, labels are often misleading or unfortunate, but I always thought the label "modern, compassionate Conservative" was a good mantra. Modern, because I think the Conservative Party has always been a party about the future and the changes necessary to take advantage of current circumstances, and the party needed to modernize. Compassionate, because conservatism does have a lot to say to me about helping those people who can get left behind. But Conservative, because we believe that if you trust people and give them more power and responsibility over their lives, you get a stronger society. So that...
...David Cameron: Yes, that's an important issue. I said the Conservative Party shouldn't sit with the European People's Party in the European Parliament after 2009, after the next elections, because at the end of the day, although there are many things we agree with the EEP about in terms of economy and immigration, we don't agree about the fundamental issue about the future direction of Europe, and I think we'd be better, as I've always said, as friendly neighbors rather than reluctant tenants. That's why we're going to establish a new group...
...David Cameron: Yes. He's a politician whose approach I just find very stuck in the past. It's all about top-down big government solutions, and if you look at the tax credit system, the NHS computer, the national ID card scheme, this belief in big government solutions solving the problems of the world. I just take a totally different view. Compared with Labour's state control, what we need is what I call social responsibility, which is trusting professionals to run our public services more, trusting parents to bring up their children more, trusting business to tackle some...
...what about the five films that were named finalists? The list includes many worthy films, no flat-out masterpieces. Each movie has a "yes, but" rider attached. We've already touched on the Iwo Jima problem. Babel? Grand and sprawling, but maybe too sprawling, and it still hasn't connected with American audiences. The Departed? All-star, well-made, but a gangster movie, and a remake - of the Hong Kong thriller Infernal Affairs. (If you're wondering what the last famous film of its type was, and how many Oscars it received, the answers are Scarface and none.) Little Miss...
...pain to construct, it's still a fun world overall, and Mika built it to his own design. It's also big, sometimes overblown, and there are a few too many ingredients for my liking; too many hooks, styles and voices. But it is serious music. Commercial, yes, but original, and far from my misguided preconceptions. "There is a lot of cynicism around," shrugs Mika, "but it doesn't bother me because it is so easily disproved." I'm still jealous of his hair, though...