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Anyone From Abroad Will Tell You That It Is The Class System That Really Lies At The Root Of Our Problems, Economic And Industrial. The House Of Lords Symbolises That.

I Have Had The Advantage Of A Radical Christian Upbringing

The Civil Service Is A Bit Like A Rusty Weathercock. It Moves With Opinion Then It Stays Where It Is Until Another Wind Moves It In A Different Direction

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.

The First World War Created The Second World War Because That Was A War Between Three Grandsons Of Queen Victoria: The King Of England, The Kaiser And The Tsar Married Queen Victoria's Granddaughter. And That Triggered Communism In Russia And Fascism In Germany And Led To The Second World War.