The Catholic Church has never really come to terms with women. What I object to is being treated either as Madonnas or Mary Magdalenes.

We have run out of creativity for children and teachers alike in the name of pushing up standards.

The British civil service ... is a beautifully designed and effective braking mechanism.

No test tube can breed love and affection. No frozen packet of semen ever read a story to a sleepy child.

We have to say now we think the character of the party has changed so far it will take something very exceptional, something really out of the ordinary line to make us be convinced there's a chance of winning back the party.

The saddest illusion of the revolutionary is that revolution itself will transform the nature of human beings.

The Catholic Church has never really come to terms with women. What I object to is being treated either as Madonnas or Mary Magdalenes.