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Chocolate is good for your heart - but only if eaten in small quantities and with no added milk a new

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Chocolate is good for your heart - but only if eaten in small quantities and with no added milk, a new study has revealed. Levels of antioxidants - known to be beneficial to health - in the bloodstream have been found to increase after moderate amounts of dark chocolate are eaten. Next time I shall vote for Iain Duncan Smith because, despite the lack of hair (so what?) and of telegenic theatricality (which is, apparently, indispensable nowadays), he is genuinely honest and Tony Blair is genuinely not.'Avenger' by Frederick Forsyth is published by Bantam Press on 4 September. I could vote for a Labour leader I respected and against a Tory one I believed to be crooked. Unfortunately, the worst Tory and Labour governments of my lifetime occupy the past 10 years I am not a doctrinal creature Unlike John Prescott, I am not riven by class hatred. Because our democracy depends on trust, not force, that is destroying centuries of effort by our fathers.Is the worst Tory government better than any Labour government imaginable?Alan Sheridan, by e-mailCertainly not. But at the moment I believe, with deepest regret, that we have a government that lies as it breathes. Journos can also be rigorously upright, talented, truthful and courageous.

In my experience journalists can be vain, petty, incompetent, slap-dash, inaccurate and stupid. But they rarely deliberately lie and no news editor or editor worth his (or her) salt would tolerate such a liar on the staff. I just analyse, comment, mock and warn.Regarding the Hutton inquiry, who do you think are the biggest liars: the politicians or the press?Charley Dellmann, IpswichThe politicians, I am afraid. Millions went to the polls and put their trust in politicians They owe us honesty.

That was when I joined - a sort of crazy weakness for lame dogs. Credit where it is due (it never is), but the Tories are slowly clawing their way back to electability as Blairism is revealed to be the shallow fraud I always thought it was As for being "The Man" - no chance. How can it be saved, and are you the man to do it?Jules Stephenson, SouthamptonIt probably reached its nadir in May 1997 with the predicted (by me and thousands of others) defeat of the unelectable Major regime. Otherwise they look for tradecraft secrets being used by rivals and enemies; but I am extremely careful not to give genuine confidences away without permission.Ever since you became a member of the Conservative Party in 1998, it has slid further towards the political abyss. How useful do you think they find them?Nona Ellis, by e-mailI have been told they like to see if they can spot opponents and colleagues - I sometimes use pretty thin disguises for real characters. I have been very damned fortunate in life.Your books are apparently read avidly by members of the KGB, CIA and SIS. We were both on the next plane home.What makes you most angry?Carl Bowater, StroudThe usual brutal things, but mostly cruelty and abuse of children.Which was the best year of your life?Rajiv Shah, by e-mailIt's very hard to say.

There was 1958 when I got my wings, 1971 when I knew Jackal had made me comfortably off and 1977 when my first son was born. To persuade me to drop any idea of facing a real bull, I was offered a holiday in Tangiers as compensation. It was 1956 - the heyday of smuggling of high-taxed goodies into Franco's Spain. While there, I tried to get taken on [onboard a ship] as a deck hand Dad found out about that, too. What were you doing there?Pat Loxton, BarkingMy Dad had flown from England to Malaga to order me out of matador school. I'm far too old.When you were 17, you spent some time in Tangiers. So the nearest I got to a fighting bull was a yard - with a damn great timber barrier between us.

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