No ethic is as ethical as the work ethic.

I predict, not because I know, but because I'm asked.

She is a reflection of comfortable middle-class values that do not take seriously the continuing unemployment. What I particularly regret is that she does not take seriously the intellectual decline. Having given up the Empire and the mass production of industrial goods, Britain's future lay in its scientific and artistic pre-eminence. Mrs Thatcher will be long remembered for the damage she has done.

The privileged have regularly invited their own destruction with their greed.

I've been writing a book called The Economics of Innocent Fraud. I published part of it already in The Progressive ("Free Market Fraud," January 1999). But I've been interrupted these last few months. It deals with all of the things we do, in an innocent way, to cover up the truth.

If people are hungry, ill-clad, unsheltered or diseased, nothing is so important as to remedy their condition.

It takes some skill to spoil a breakfast - even the English can't do it.