
I'm a passionate trade unionist.

I believe in trade unionism, and I believe in democracy, in democratic trade unionism.

I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics.

If you've ever seen the film In Which We Serve, but it was about a destroyer in the Mediterranean.

I just love biography, and I'm fascinated by people who have shifted our destinies or our points of view.

I prefer fact to fiction.

Art is not an elitist gift for a few select people. Art is for everyone.

I am passionately opposed to capital punishment, and I have been all my life.

I can't write, I can't paint, I don't compose.

I think Tom Paine is one of the greatest men that's ever lived.

I passionately believe in heroes, but I think the world has changed its criteria in determining who it describes as a hero.