The Peace Movement Didn't Stop The Iraq

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.

I See Myself As An Old Man And An Unqualified Teacher To The Nation. I Think Being A Teacher Is Probably The Most Important Thing You Can Be In Politics.

If You're Going To Make Sense Of Politics You Have To Have A Historical Perspective And Also Recognise That You Have To Work With People You Don't Agree With.

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.

Encouragement Is The Most Important Thing In The World For Young People, Rather Than League Tables, Which Demoralise Everyone.