Harold Wilson is a petty bourgeois and will remain so in spirit even if they make him a Viscount.

The trouble with the Socialist Workers Party is that they live in an historical thermos-flask.

Two negatives don't make a positive, any more than two half-wits make a wit.

No prime minister in Britain will ever be able to go to war without the endorsement of a majority of the House of Commons.

Is Tony Blair of the Labour party? The answer to that is profoundly 'yes', but that is not how, sentimentally, he is regarded in the Labour movement generally.

That sort of fundamentalism which treats possession of private property not as a desirable economic and personal asset but as a condition of liberty is a form of primitive religion.

I would die for my country, but I could never let my country die for me.