"The ghosts of the big beasts of the past stalk Bournemouth, and names that were once to conjure with - Heseltine, Major, Clarke - fill the headlines once again."
"Members of the Shadow Cabinet are remembered from the days when conferences were about behaving badly in black tie. Now they are pretending to be grown up."
"Those who are still partying through the night are either gripped by the catatonia of the truly drunk or have talked their way back to sobriety and are curiously calm."
