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

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.

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

I have had the advantage of a radical Christian upbringing

If you want your debt lifted you've got to sell your school and your hospitals.

If one meets a powerful person - Adolf Hitler, Joe Stalin or Bill Gates - ask them five questions: 'What power have you got? Where did you get it from? In whose interests do you exercise it? To whom are you accountable? And how can we get rid of you?' If you cannot get rid of the people who govern you, you do not live in a democratic system.

She believes in something. It is an old-fashioned idea