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

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.

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

They travel best in gangs, hanging around like clumps of bananas, thick skinned and yellow.

In the U.K. the far Right is a stain on society and there is a cultural resistance to it.

At various times in the next 20 or 30 years I think it reasonable to anticipate that I will be among the leadershp of the Labour Party, but as far as being leader, I can't see it happening, and I'm not particularly keen on it happening.

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