The cumulative effects of the economic and financial sanctions might well bring the rebellion to an end within a matter of weeks rather than months.

All these financiers, all the little gnomes of Zürich and the other financial centres, about whom we keep on hearing.

Everybody should have an equal chance - but they shouldn't have a flying start.

This party is a bit like an old stagecoach. If you drive along at a rapid rate everyone aboard is either so exhilarated or so seasick that you don't have a lot of difficulty.

The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

There is something utterly nauseating about a system of society which pays a harlot 25 times as much as it pays its prime minister, 250 times as much as it pays its members of Parliament and 500 times as much as it pays some of its ministers of religion.

Debating against him is no fun, say something insulting and he looks at you like a whipped dog.