Political renegades always start their career of treachery as 'the best men of all parties' and end up in the Tory knackery.

Arthur Scargill is the Labour movements nearest equivalent to a First World War General.

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.

At various times in the next 20 or 30 years I think it reasonable to anticipate that I will be among the leadershp of the Labour Party, but as far as being leader, I can't see it happening, and I'm not particularly keen on it happening.

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.

I warn you not to fall ill, I warn you not to get old.

Resentment is an extremely bitter diet, I have no desire to make my own toxins.