All War Represents A Failure Of Diplomacy.

Bush Is Actually Encouraging The Spread Of Nuclear Weapons Because The One Thing I Do Know Is If Iran Did Have Nuclear Weapons They Wouldn't Be Threatening Them.

I Try To Operate On Two Unconnected Levels. One On The Practical Level Of Action In Which I Am Extremely Cautious And Conservative. The Second Is The Realm Of Ideas Where I Try To Be Very Free

I'm Interested In Language. We Used To Call It The War Office. Then It Became The Ministry Of Defence. We Used To Talk About The Hydrogen Bomb, Now We Talk About A Deterrent. And The Language Is Very Cleverly Constructed To Give The Impression That It's Not What It Is.

Christians Believe That God Created Man, And Humanists Believe That Man Invented God. But Whichever Way You Look At It, We're Brothers And Sisters. Either We're Brothers And Sisters Because We're Children Of God, Or Because We've Banded Together To Invent God. So The Ethics Of The Humanist And The Ethics Of Some Christians Are Very Similar. And We Don't Want To Create Divisions Between Humanists And Liberation Theologians, Any More Than We Want Between The New Worker And The Trots. It's Not Helpful.

I Was Radicalised By Being A Minister. That's When I Saw How The System Really Worked. And That Is Not A Very Usual Process, But It Certainly Happened To Me: It Gave Me A Lot More Experience, It Helped Me To Understand Where Power Really Lay, Develop Strategies For Undermining Or Changing It, And So On. But That Isn't The Norm. Mr Gladstone Moved To The Left As He Got Older, And One Or Two Other People Have, But Normally You Swing The Other Way.