Many of us in the West have come to feel that the development of technology in the military and economic fields has produced a single world in which the central problems, both military and economic, are going to require co-operation rather than continued confrontation and competition.

An aircraft which is used by wealthy people on their expense accounts, whose fares are subsidized by much poorer taxpayers.

The Americans have a very active presence and policy in every single part of the world and if we broke with them, we would lose any possibility of influencing them. They would go in for global unilateralism, and the world would be a more dangerous place.

If you’re in a hole, stop digging.

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

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

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