You can hardly say boo to a goose in the House of Commons now without cries of "Ungentlemanly," "Not fair" and all the rest.

I read a great number of press reports and find comfort in the fact that they are nearly always conflicting.

Stop-Go seemed more sensiblr than using the brake and accelerator at the same time - a practice that later became fashionable.

He (Aneurin Bevan) enjoys prophesying the imminent fall of the capitalist system, and is prepared to play a part, any part, in its burial, except that of mute.

You will find the Americans much as the Greeks found the Romans: great, big, vulgar, bustling people more vigorous than we are and also more idle, with more unspoiled virtues but also more corrupt.

Too many people live too much in the past. The past must be a springboard, not a sofa.

Britain's most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur.