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

Compassion is not a sloppy sentimental feeling for people who are underprivileged or sick... it is an absolutely practical belief that regardless of a person's background, ability or ability to pay, he should be provided with the best that society has to offer.

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

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.

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

I take notice of those who have argued consistently for the modernisation of the E.U., but so many of the skeptics in Britain are just hostile to the whole European idea.