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.

When you think of the number of men in the world who hate each other, why, when two men love each other, does the church split?

Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence.

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

People would do well to ask themselves how many of their ambitions and aspirations derive from the type of economic system they inhabit and the insecurity and exhaustion it creates, and question the sense and purpose of a society where control of a large portion of life is abdicated under contract in the labour market, and where immense creativity and potential is stifled by the need to do difficult and repetitive tasks in order to earn a wage.

I'm a democrat - I don't support Bush, I don't support Blair, I don't support Bin Laden.

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