It's Lovely To Be Old. I've Got

We Are Paying A Heavy Political Price For 20 Years In Which, As A Party, We Have Played Down Our Criticism Of Capitalism And Soft-peddled Our Advocacy Of Socialism

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.

I Am Not A Reluctant Peer But A Persistent Commoner

The Peace Movement Didn't Stop The Iraq But I Think That Blair Would Not Be Able To Go Along And Support An Iranian War.

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