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.

If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library.

The peace movement here is the biggest thing in human history.

Thanks to the tabloid campaigns I have many death threats and I was very pleased to get another one the other day.

There is good and bad in all of us and the Church uses the idea of original sin to control us by saying that, if we do not obey the bishops, we will rot in Hell.

I think very often the boat-rockers turn out to be the people who are building the craft

Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence.