The enemy of idealism is zealotry.

Harold Wilson is a petty bourgeois and will remain so in spirit even if they make him a Viscount.

The enemy of idealism is zealotry.

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

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

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.