Nature is not simply a technical or economical resource and human beings are not mere numbers. To suggest that one can somehow align all the squabbling institutions of science environmental management government and diplomacy in an alliance of convenience to regulate the global climate seems to me optimistic.

In choosing global corporate partners UNICEF emphasises compatibility with our core values and looks to build alliances that advance our mission of ensuring the health education equality and protection for all the world's children.

With my ministry of light part of what I do is work on the California Alliance For Arts Education.

I'm on Governor Gray Davis' California Alliance Towards Education to bring the arts back to high schools.

Not only the priceless heritage of our fathers of our seamen of our Empire builders is being thrown away in a war that serves no British interests - but our alliance leader Stalin dreams of nothing but the destruction of that heritage of our fathers?

My view is that you still in order to win from the Labour perspective have to have a strong alliance with business as well as the unions. You have got to be very much in the centre ground on things like public sector reform.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.