Newspapers are tutors as well as informers.

People, even independently minded people, do to an extent draw their impressions from what they are told, especially if they are told it incessantly by newspapers.

I didn't call for a ballot at the start of the miners' strike in 1984. I'll regret that until my dying day.

I would die for my country, but I could never let my country die for me.

The enemy of idealism is zealotry.

Mr Blair made the decision before the election that it would be his last as leader,