A politician complaining about the media is like a sailor complaining about the sea.

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

If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Paisley has been and remains a greater threat to the Union than the Foreign Office and the Provisional IRA rolled into one.

We must be mad, literally mad, as a nation to be permitting the annual inflow of some 50,000 dependents, who are for the most part the material of the future growth of the immigrant-descended population. It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre.

I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions.

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.