Lift the curtain and 'the State' reveals itself as a little group of fallible men in Whitehall, making guesses about the future, influenced by political prejudices and partisan prejudices, and working on projections drawn from the past by a staff of economists.

The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom.

It is no accident that wherever the State ha taken economic decision away from the citizen, it has deprived him of his other liberties as well.

All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs.

Independence, the freedom of a self-governing nation, is in my estimation the highest political good, for which any disadvantage, if need be, and any sacrifice are a cheap price.

A little nonsense now and then is not a bad thing - where would we politicians be if we were not allowed to talk it sometimes.

In the end, the Labour party could cease to represent labour. Stranger historic ironies have happened than that.