Michael Gove believes the strikers want 'mothers to give up a day's work or pay for childcare'

Joe Frazier's problem was that his most celebrated opponent was much more than a boxer

The mistake that the pessimists make is in seeing each of us solely as consumers

Now Liam Fox has gone, maybe the next one to resign should be Chris Huhne, the Secretary of State for Energy, on the grounds that's he's pointless. After meeting the energy companies his statement on rising energy bills was that we should check to see if we're paying the cheapest rate, and maybe change to a different company if we're not.

Huhne will deal with electricity prices by saying he's hoping for a mild winter

The difficulty with being a government minister must be phrasing a statement so that it can't be misinterpreted, as it might then appear you've been dishonest in some way. So it's helpful that the Government has introduced new guidelines to prevent this, by establishing that ministers can make up whatever they like.