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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.

Christians Believe That God Created Man, And Humanists Believe That Man Invented God. But Whichever Way You Look At It, We're Brothers And Sisters. Either We're Brothers And Sisters Because We're Children Of God, Or Because We've Banded Together To Invent God. So The Ethics Of The Humanist And The Ethics Of Some Christians Are Very Similar. And We Don't Want To Create Divisions Between Humanists And Liberation Theologians, Any More Than We Want Between The New Worker And The Trots. It's Not Helpful.

The Quickest Way To Get To The Top In Society Probably Is To Be A Blair Babe Now. And Then All Of A Sudden You Find You're Invited To Parties. I Don't Want To Be Cynical, Because I'm Not. But I've Seen It Happen To So Many People Who Move From The Left To The Right So Damn Quickly.

I Think The Truth Is That The Labour Party Isn't Believed Any More Because People Suspect It Will Say Anything To Get Votes. The Rebuilding Of Some Radical Alternatives To Thatcherism - And By That I Mean All-party Thatcherism - Will Require Us To Do Some Very Difficult Things

Some Of The Jam We Thought Was For Tomorrow, We've Already Eaten