In a way I'm almost more rueful about the notion of having a non-ideological Labour party than I am about the personality of Tony Blair.

[Boxer is] the ultimate tool for the serious pro' that can't afford the time and patience to mess around with lesser products.

What a heap of ash most political careers amount to, when one really stops to consider them!

People perish. Books are immortal.

By dawn he had surrendered, gratefully, to the old inertia, the product of always seeing both sides of every question.

History is what we bring to it, not just the events themselves, but how we interpret those events.

Everyone thinks politics will just go on the way it is. I don't agree.