I believe in Father Christmas (he is a big fellow, after all)

British Spin returns with the first draft of Michael Howard's beliefs. A few selections:

I believe that the people should be big. That the state should be small. I hate dwarves.

I believe that people must have every opportunity to fulfil their potential, unless their potential is to be an officer in an army of interferers.

I do not believe that one person's poverty is caused by another's wealth. Unless that other person is a burglar.

I do not believe in being very clear about causality.

I do not believe that one person's sickness is made worse by another's health. Which is good, because if it was, we’d have to put all healthy people into isolation wards, and let the sick wander the streets.