The Tories always hold the view that the state is an apparatus for the protection of the swag of the property owners ... Christ drove the money changers out of the temple, but you inscribe their title deed on the altar cloth.

Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.

The Tories, every election, must have a bogy man. If you haven't got a programme, a bogy man will do.

The NHS will last as long as there are folk left with faith to fight for it

Soon, if we are not prudent, millions of people will be watching each other starve to death through expensive television sets

There are two ways of getting into the Cabinet - you can crawl in or kick your way in.

Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.