Choice depends on the freedom to choose and if you are shackled with debt you don't have the freedom to choose.

Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence.

The New York Times said, "There are two superpowers in the world: the United States and the world peace movement."

Encouragement is the most important thing in the world for young people, rather than league tables, which demoralise everyone.

I did not enter the Labour Party 47 years ago to have our manifesto written by Dr Mori, Dr Gallup and Mr Harris

I've got four lovely children, ten lovely grandchildren, and I left parliament to devote more time to politics, and I think that what is really going on in Britain is a growing sense of alienation. People don't feel anyone listens to them.

The present combination of corporate or commercial control theoretically answerable to politically appointed Boards of Governors is not in any sense a democratic enough procedure to control the power the broadcasters have.