I think the majority of the British people are still sanguine about the need for war.

Neil Kinnock's speeches go on for so long because he has nothing to say and so he has no way of knowing when he's finished saying it.

I think the majority of the British people are still sanguine about the need for war.

If you look at things that really affect people's lives - sport, the arts, charities - they were always at the back of the queue for government money - health, social security, defence, pensions were all way ahead. And each of those areas - sports, the arts, the lottery - got relatively petty cash from the government.

I don't think nations can stand aside for ethnic cleansing and genocide.

My father was 64 when I was conceived, my mother 38, which was late for babies in the 1940s.

Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less.