I am the first male member of my family for about three generations who can have reasonable confidence in expecting that I will leave this earth with more or less the same number of fingers, hands, legs, toes and eyes as I had when I was born.

I'm prepared to take advice on leisure from Prince Philip. He's a world expert on leisure. He's been practicing it for most of his adult life.

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

New!Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards.

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

The unforgivable political sin is vanity, the killer diet is sour grapes.

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