History is littered with the wars which everybody knew would never happen.

Values exist in a transcendental realm, beyond space and time. They can neither be fought for, nor destroyed.

The Prime Minister, shortly after she came into office, received a sobriquet as the 'Iron Lady'. It arose in the context of remarks which she made about defence against the Soviet Union and its allies; but there was no reason to suppose that the Right Honourable Lady did not welcome and, indeed, take pride in that description. In the next week or two this House, the nation and the Right Honourable Lady herself, will learn of what metal she is made.

I have set and always will set my face like flint against making any difference between one citizen of this country and another on grounds of his origin.

The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom.

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.

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