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

Is Tony Blair of the Labour party? The answer to that is profoundly 'yes', but that is not how, sentimentally, he is regarded in the Labour movement generally.

I'm prepared to take advice on leisure from Prince Philip. He's a world expert on leisure. He's been practicing it for most of his adult life.

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

I warn you not to fall ill, I warn you not to get old.

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

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