His VERY waspish wit

On the 1983 Labour manifesto: The longest suicide note in history On Ken Livingstone: A smarmy charlatan On his fellow Labour MP Barbara Castle: The Norma Desmond of politics, like the protagonist of Sunset Boulevard always ready for her close-up On New Labour MPs: They have become rent-a-quotes, preening themselves when their littleknown names are attached to derogatory quotes by lazy journalists On Israel and the Holocaust: The present Israeli government cynically exploits guilt over the Holocaust as justification for their murder of Palestinians On Andrew Lloyd Webber: The problem with Andrew Lloyd Webber’s music is not that it sounds as if it were written by other composers, but that it sounds as if it were written by Lloyd Webber