The one thing that is absolutely essential is that there shouldn't be any governmental control [of the media] directly or indirectly.

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

There's people on the left who say, the ballot box is a waste of time. Forget them. When Mandela voted for the first time at the age of 76 there was a lot of grown men, including me, wept buckets. That was what it was about. It doesn't solve things, but it gives you the mechanism to hold to account the people with power.

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

When I think of Cool Britannia I think of old people dying of hypothermia.

The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

Through talk, we tamed kings, restrained tyrants, averted revolution