The police are controlled by the whites, the media are controlled by the whites, the army's controlled by the whites, what hope is there for change? Administration changes from underneath.

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.

I am not a reluctant peer but a persistent commoner

An MP is the only job where you have 70,000 employers, and only one employee.

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

I do not share the general view that market forces are the basis of personal liberty.

No medieval monarch in the whole of British history ever had such power as every modern British Prime Minister has in his or her hands. Nor does any American President have power approaching this