"I don't think other people in the world would share the view that there is mounting chaos... If you look at it from the outside, I think perhaps you might think there are isolated problems... But I don't think the chaos exists in the way in which you are sometimes embroiled in it... Please don't run this country down by talking about crisis."

James Callaghan, Prime Minister, press conference at Heathrow Airport, 10 January 1979, on returning from the Guadeloupe G7 summit. The statement was condensed by The Sun into the front-page headline 'Crisis? What Crisis?'