The Marxist analysis has got nothing to do with what happened in Stalin's Russia: it's like blaming Jesus Christ for the Inquisition in Spain.

I'm interested in language. We used to call it the War Office. Then it became the Ministry of Defence. We used to talk about the hydrogen bomb, now we talk about a deterrent. And the language is very cleverly constructed to give the impression that it's not what it is.

There is no moral difference between a stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. Both kill innocent people for political reasons.

The Labour party has never been a socialist party, although there have always been socialists in it - a bit like Christians in the Church of England.

It is obvious I shall have to abandon my hopes of getting the Queen's head off the stamps.

We are paying a heavy political price for 20 years in which, as a party, we have played down our criticism of capitalism and soft-peddled our advocacy of socialism

The way a government treats refugees is very instructive.