The New York Times said, "There are two superpowers in the world: the United States and the world peace movement."

Having served in eleven Parliaments, it would be difficult to describe this as a maiden speech. It would be like Elizabeth Taylor appearing at her next wedding in a white gown.

The exhaustion of old age is something people who are younger don't fully appreciate.

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.

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

I think to understand how the democratic process works is the most important thing, so people don't get frightened by it, and get put off, and give up.