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

I want to retire at 50. I want to play cricket in the summer and geriatric football in the winter, and sing in the choir.

In the U.K. the far Right is a stain on society and there is a cultural resistance to it.

I warn you not to be ordinary, I warn you not to be young, I warn you not to fall ill, and I warn you not to grow old.

They travel best in gangs, hanging around like clumps of bananas, thick skinned and yellow.

Without false modetsy, I don't think I have a fraction of the talent of either Bevan of Foot.

People who are in politics to be right all the time would be better off taking up fly-fishing. It's less dangerous. Politics that is not applied in the real world and doesn't address the real challenges and paradoxes and agonies is a hobby.