I have never consciously exploited the fact that I am a woman. I wouldn't dare try that even if I knew how to. I have too much respect for my male colleagues to think they would be particualrly impressed.

Think, think, think. It will hurt like hell at first, but you'll get used to it.

And that will increasingly dawn on people. The demand for controlling the commanding heights will grow.

It was very much a cry for democratic control at that time. Above all, breaking the accomplished power of a few people to rule the lives of everybody else.

Britain in the 1970s was undoubtedly an economic mess because of the oil price explosion.

You see, another reason for nationalization was that private ownership meant fragmentation.

And what always struck me about that war period was how even Churchill had to talk socialism to keep up people's morale.