I Am Not A Reluctant Peer But

I Sometimes Wish The Trade Unionists Who Work In The Mass Media, Those Who Are Writers And Broadcasters And Secretaries And Printers And Lift Operators Of Thomson House Would Remember That They Too Are Members Of Our Working Class Movement And Have A Responsibility To See That What Is Said About Us Is True.

I'm A Democrat - I Don't Support Bush, I Don't Support Blair, I Don't Support Bin Laden.

I Think Mrs Thatcher Did More Damage To Democracy, Equality, Internationalism, Civil Liberties, Freedom In This Country Than Any Other Prime Minister This Century. When The Euphoria Surrounding Her Departure Subsides You Will Find That In A Year Or Two's Time There Will Not Be A Tory Who Admits Ever Supporting Her. People In The Street Will Say, Thank God She's Gone

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.

The One Thing That Unites Sunni, Shiites And Kurds Is They Want The Americans Out.