But we should not lose sight of how far we are coming and what a big hole we were left by George W. Bush.

History is full of times when the inevitable front-runner is inevitable right up until he or she is no longer inevitable.

We have now under President Obama's leadership had 29 months in a row of private sector job growth. That stretch of positive private sector job growth hasn't happened since 2005. We still have a long way to go, but we are moving in the right direction.

Leadership is about making the right decision and the best decision before, sometimes, it becomes entirely popular.

If your DNA profile puts you at a higher risk of developing obesity, that doesn't mean it's your fate. You can take control of the environmental side of the equation and reduce your overall lifetime risk by a lot.

It is vital that MPs take the issue of climate change seriously and support the students in their activism. They can rest assured that I certainly do.

Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels, and loss of biodiversity.

Those who say that climate change doesn't exist are being understood as the flat-earthers that they are, as the people who deny the link between smoking and cancer, as the people who denied the link between HIV and AIDS.