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.
Think of it! A second chamber selected by the Whips. A seraglio of eunuchs.
You can have a wages policy imposed by mass unemployment.
Of course my father was a great influence on me. He taught me how to read.
The only man I knew who could make a curse sound like a caress.