The best care on earth cannot prevent us all dying in the end.

But the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more crimes.

One in six people suffer depression or a chronic anxiety disorder. These are not the worried well but those in severe mental pain with conditions crippling enough to prevent them living normal lives.

Crime is only the worst example, but it is a paradigm for other Labour policy disasters. No one tells the voters that crime is falling: let them stay scared senseless.

Training with Bela and Marta Karolyi took the joy out of the Olympics for me. I look back and feel there was a lot of verbal and physical abuse. For years, I felt it was my problem.

What could be more important to the pursuit of happiness than the right to choose your spouse without asking a Washington politician for permission?

I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.

Rule of law, access to justice, and financial transparency happen by design, not accident.