History is what we read, write and think about the past.

The true use of history, whether civil or military, is not to make man clever for the next time, it is to make him wise forever.

So long as the international community consists of sovereign states, war between them remains a possibility, of which all governments have to take reasonable account.

I am happy to debate the past with the Prime Minister... I have a big dossier on his past, and I did not even have to sex it up.

Tony Blair is already secretly grinning at the prospect of his third victory. You don't have to settle for that.

We must rediscover the habit of thinking the best of each other

I believe abortion should be available to everyone, but the law should be changed. In the past I voted for a restriction to 22 weeks, and I would be prepared to go down to 20.