My own electorate, which I represented for 36 years as an anti-apartheid politician, had a considerable number of Jewish voters supporting me throughout my career.

I stand for simple justice, equal opportunity and human rights. The indispensable elements in a democratic society - and well worth fighting for.

I don't think we will ever go the way of Zimbabwe, but people are concerned.

That's my life in there. It would never be possible today to ask as many questions as I did.

It is the civilian part of the politics that is very, very bad, and we have to change that.

In the 1990s, the Lib Dems won a string of byelections at the expense of struggling Conservative governments. Christchurch, Ribble Valley and Eastbourne went straight back to the Tories at the next general election, but the Lib Dems held their later byelection gains - Eastleigh, Newbury and Romsey - in at least two subsequent general elections.

Am I the only person covering politics who ever noticed that Newt Gingrich is actually a nincompoop?

Equality as a principle is at the heart of our democracy.