I think if journalists were responsible for international policy we'd have a nuclear war every week.

I opposed the Suez war, I opposed the Falklands war. I opposed the Libyan bombing and I opposed the Gulf war and I never believed that any of those principled arguments lost a single vote - indeed, I think they gained support though that was not why you did it. What has been lacking in Labour politics over a long period is a principled stand

Britain's continuing membership of the Community would mean the end of Britain as a completely self-governing nation...

There is no moral difference between a stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. Both kill innocent people for political reasons.

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

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 met somebody once who said, "I'm a lapsed-atheist" by what he meant was, "I don't believe in God but the older I get the more I realise there is a spirituality in everybody that has to be cherished and nourished." That made a lot of sense to me.