The Internet is only the street corner meeting on a big scale

Undoubtedly the war with Iraq was a tragedy. I think it was also a crime.

If I were the American President I would rather be popular than have the power the destroy the world because however many puppets they have all over the Middle East - Saudi Arabia, Egypt and so on - they haven't got support from the people.

Middle class Labour leaders are recaptured by the establishment when they die.

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.

When Blair was elected leader of the Labour Party, he said, "New Labour is a new political party" - that was the phrase he used, and I'm so glad he said it because he set up his own party and I'm not a member of it.

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