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.

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

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

The enemy of idealism is zealotry.

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.

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

Do something that makes a difference - because, by God, there's a lot to make you angry.