Some Of The Jam We Thought Was

Remember, Imperialism Is Always Presented As Humanitarian: The White Man's Burden, The Cross Going Round The World, The Poor Benighted Natives, The Sun Never Sets. . . So You Have To Be Very Careful About Humanitarianism.

I Am On The Right Wing Of The Middle Of The Road And With A Strong Radical Bias.

All War Represents A Failure Of Diplomacy.

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

I Was Radicalised By Being A Minister. That's When I Saw How The System Really Worked. And That Is Not A Very Usual Process, But It Certainly Happened To Me: It Gave Me A Lot More Experience, It Helped Me To Understand Where Power Really Lay, Develop Strategies For Undermining Or Changing It, And So On. But That Isn't The Norm. Mr Gladstone Moved To The Left As He Got Older, And One Or Two Other People Have, But Normally You Swing The Other Way.