I must emphasise that there is nothing in the Labour Party constituion that could, or should prevent people from holding opinions which favour Leninist-Trotskyism. Certainly Marxism has, and will continue to have an important function in the Labour Party.

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

American nuclear weapons would almost certainly start being removed from Britain within 12 months of a Labour government gaining power.

Mobile phones are the only subject on which men boast about who's got the smallest.

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

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.

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.