“In Britain, the centrally prescribed welfare to work system short-changes the young unemployed. Transport, housing and education are over centralised.”

“The biggest novelty of 2013 will be new leadership in China. Very little is known about the views of the new leaders - who will rule the country for ten years. But we do know they're the first generation of Chinese leaders who have spent the majority of their lives in a China 'opening up' to the rest of the world.”

“The test of leadership for David Cameron was actually to bring the British Conservative Party back in to the mainstream.”