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.

No prime minister in Britain will ever be able to go to war without the endorsement of a majority of the House of Commons.

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

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 would die for my country, but I could never let my country die for me.

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.