All War Represents A Failure Of Diplomacy.

Experience Is The Only Real Teacher And If You Keep A Diary You Get Three Bites At Educating Yourself - When It Happens, When You Write It Down, And When You Reread It And Realise You Were Wrong. Making Mistakes Is Part Of Life. The Only Things I Would Feel Ashamed Of Would Be If I Had Said Things I Hadn't Believed In Order To Get On. Some Politicians Do Do That.

I Do Not Share The General View That Market Forces Are The Basis Of Personal Liberty.

The Tory Party Is The Enemy Of Democracy.

The Present Combination Of Corporate Or Commercial Control Theoretically Answerable To Politically Appointed Boards Of Governors Is Not In Any Sense A Democratic Enough Procedure To Control The Power The Broadcasters Have.

There Is No Connection Between Imperialism And Democracy. I Mean When We Ran An Empire Which We Did When I Was Born, There Was No Democracy Anywhere.