He brings to the fierce struggle of politics the tepid enthusiasm of a lazy summer afternoon at a cricket match.

In Germany democracy died by the headman's axe. In Britain it can be by pernicious anaemia.

Virtue is its own punishment.

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

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.

He [Winston Churchill] is a man suffering from petrified adolescence.

I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine.