I think there are two ways in which people are controlled - first of all frighten people and secondly demoralize them.

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

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

Experience is the only real teacher and if you keep a diary you get three bites at educating yourself - when it happens, when you write it down, and when you reread it and realise you were wrong. Making mistakes is part of life. The only things I would feel ashamed of would be if I had said things I hadn't believed in order to get on. Some politicians do do that.

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

The present combination of corporate or commercial control theoretically answerable to politically appointed Boards of Governors is not in any sense a democratic enough procedure to control the power the broadcasters have.

I think democracy is not a destination. I don't think socialism is a railway station and if we catch the right train with the right driver, we'll get there. I think it's a way of thinking about things and every generation has to do it again.