A speech from Ernest Bevin on a major occasion had all the horrific fascination of a public execution. If the mind was left immune, eyes and ears and emotions were riveted.
Politicians live in little worlds of their own and imagine these are the universe.
Of course my father was a great influence on me. He taught me how to read.
A Royal Commission is a broody hen sitting on a china egg.
How long will it be before the cry goes up: "Let's kill all the judges"?
People can say what they want in the Labour Party.