The Parthenon without the marbles is like a smile with a tooth missing.

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.

Margaret Thatcher was not a malicious person. She was a person who couldn't see, or didn't want to see, the unfairness and disadvantaging consequences of the application of what she thought to be a renewing ideology.

We cannot remove the evils of capitalism without taking its source of power: ownership.

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

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

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