First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging!

It is a good thing to follow the First Law of Holes: if you are in one, stop digging.

Trying to create a sense of common interest does involve getting people actually to work together on common problems. It can't be created by law, that's why I disagree with the liberal approach becuase it's essentially a lawyer's approach.

Mrs Thatcher tells us she has given the French President a piece of her mind... not a gift I would receive with alacrity.

Karl Marx himself preferred a glass of claret to the mug of tea affected by some of his recent converts.

Being attacked by him is like being savaged by a dead sheep.

Socialism to me is establishing social control of power in society, and where that differs from liberalism for example which aims at a similar situation in some respects, is we think you can only establish control over power by changing the structure and distribution of power, notably economic power.