I was called up in 1942. Having been born in Berlin, schooled in Devon, London and Berkshire, and lived in Suffolk, I ended up in the Highland Light Infantry.

I suppose that if your name is Freud, it is better to be related to Sigmund than not. It must be frustrating to have to keep denying family connection.

'Now I am in your country with a colleague, than whom I am older, have been in parliament longer, have held higher positions in our respective political partie…

If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just seems longer.