There are always great dangers in letting the best be the enemy of the good.

A social democratic party without deep roots in the working class movement would quickly fade into an unrepresentative intellectual sect

The permissive society has been allowed to become a dirty phrase. A better phrase is the civilised society

The fact is that Harold Wilson is a person no one can like, a person without friends.

There is a lot of talk about a centre party - and that I might lead it. I find this idea profoundly unattractive

The Labour Party is and always has been an instinctive part of my life

I therefore believe that the politics of the left and centre of this country are frozen in an out-of-date mould which is bad for the political and economic health of Britain and increasingly inhibiting for those who live within the mould. Can it be broken?