I Do Not Share The General View

No Medieval Monarch In The Whole Of British History Ever Had Such Power As Every Modern British Prime Minister Has In His Or Her Hands. Nor Does Any American President Have Power Approaching This

There Is Good And Bad In All Of Us And The Church Uses The Idea Of Original Sin To Control Us By Saying That, If We Do Not Obey The Bishops, We Will Rot In Hell.

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.

The Labour Party Has Never Been A Socialist Party, Although There Have Always Been Socialists In It - A Bit Like Christians In The Church Of England.

Cabinet Members Are Soon Overwhelmed By The Insistent Demands Of Running Their Departments. On The Whole, A Period In High Office Consumers Intellectual Capital; It Does Not Create It....the Less Ministers Know At The Outset, The More Dependent They Are On The Only Sources Of Available Knowledge; The Permanent Officials.