Wine turns the wise man into a fool and the fool into a wise man.
Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.
The proposition that Muslims are welcome in Britain if, and only if, they stop behaving like Muslims is a doctrine which is incompatible with the principles that guide a free society.
Familiarity with evil breeds not contempt but acceptance.
One of the problems of our society is that we spend too much time thinking about punishment and not enough about prevention.
A crucial contribution to the ideological argument. . . it provides a vital part of the intellectual manifesto on which the battle for a better society can be fought
I've never known a time when the in-fighting in the Labour Party was so bitter.
You have to be quite grounded, and I don't know what that is. Sometimes, that means being vulnerable.
I come from a different era and I design clothes for our era. I think of people I want to dress when I design.
He's never quite got the trick of conversation, tending to hear in dissenting views, however mild, a kind of affront, an invitation to mortal combat.
What matters are those ordinary acts of kindness and of love, not vaulting ambition with its attendant hubris and smugness.