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The national strike of the miners in 1972 performed, I believe, a great service, not only to the miners, but the people in Britain today who wanted coal
People can say what they want in the Labour Party.
Of all the sights and sounds which attracted me on my first arrival to live in London in the mid-thirties, one combined operation left a lingering, individual spell. I naturally went to Hyde Park to hear the orators, the best of the many free entertainments on offer in the capital. I heard the purest milk of the world flowing, then as now, from the platform of the Socialist Party of Great Britain.
Men of power have not time to read, yet men who do not read are not fit for power.
She has no imagination and that means no compassion.
Disraeli was my favourite Tory. He was an adventurer pure and simple, or impure and complex. I'm glad to say Gladstone got the better of him.
A speech from Ernest Bevin on a major occasion had all the horrific fascination of a public execution. If the mind was left immune, eyes and ears and emotions were riveted.
People must learn more and more that the strength of this country is the democratic power of the trade union movement
He's passed from rising hope to elder statesman without any intervening period whatsoever.
I have never been in favour of expelling people from the Labour Party.
Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power.
The only man I knew who could make a curse sound like a caress.
Is the Labour Party to remain a democratic party in which the right of free criticism and free debate is not merely tolerated but encouraged? Or are the rank and file of the party to be bludgeoned or cowed into an uncritical subservience towards the leadership?
Politicians live in little worlds of their own and imagine they are the universe.
It does so happen to be the case that if the freedom of the people of this country-and especially the rights of trade unionists-if those precious things in the past had been left to the good sense and fairmindedness of judges, we would have precious few freedoms in this country.
Think of it! A second chamber selected by the Whips. A seraglio of eunuchs.
