Douglas Hurd

The first two Prime Ministers whom I served, Ted Heath and Margaret Thatcher drew strikingly different lessons from the Second World War.

Wisely used history can give pleasure and provide us with a useful tool; but we should not become its slaves.

But it cannot follow that because weapons and troops are now being deployed we are bound to go to war.

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.

I see a lot of actors for whom life becomes one big schedule. I guess I try to be more sensitive to my private life - to take a breath of fresh air and be in the countryside or on a golf course.

It is often in the name of cultural integrity as well as social stability and national security that democratic reforms based on human rights are resisted by authoritarian governments.