If I rescued a child from drowning, the press would no doubt headline the story: 'Benn grabs child

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

The peace movement didn't stop the Iraq but I think that Blair would not be able to go along and support an Iranian war.

There is no final victory, as there is no final defeat. There is just the same battle. To be fought, over and over again. So toughen up, bloody toughen up.

Well, it all began with Democracy. Before we had the vote all the power was in the hands of rich people. If you had money you could get health care, education, look after yourself when you were old, and what democracy did was to give the poor the vote and it moved power from the marketplace to the polling station, from the wallet...to the ballot.

It is wholly wrong to blame Marx for what was done in his name, as it is to blame Jesus for what was done in his

Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence.