Consultation is a good thing when people agree with you, and a waste of time when people don't agree with you

I grew up in Lambeth, I went to normal schools and I've grown up in a city where people say what they think.

I think George Bush is the most corrupt American president since Harding in the Twenties. He is not the legitimate president. This really is a completely unsupportable government and I look forward to it being overthrown as much as I looked forward to Saddam Hussein being overthrown.

I am a socialist, a believer in rational thought and the rule of law.

The people I really most admire are Robert Kennedy and Franklin Roosevelt. If you know someone, it is very hard to revere them.

I take a much more pragmatic view than many people on the Left about working with Neil Kinnock. Kinnock represents the best vehicle possible for achieving socialism now.

The world is run by monsters and you have to deal with them. Some of them run countries, some of them run banks, some of them run news corporations.