I See Myself As An Old Man

Broadcasting Is Really Too Important To Be Left To The Broadcasters.

I Do Not Share The General View That Market Forces Are The Basis For Political Liberty. Every Time I See A Homeless Person Living In A Cardboard Box In London, I See That Person As A Victim Of Market Forces. Everytime I See A Pensioner Who Cannot Manage, I Know That He Is A Victim Of Market Forces

After The War People Said, 'if You Can Plan For War, Why Can't You Plan For Peace?' When I Was 17, I Had A Letter From The Government Saying, 'dear Mr. Benn, Will You Turn Up When You're 17 1/2? We'll Give You Free Food, Free Clothes, Free Training, Free Accommodation, And Two Shillings, Ten Pence A Day To Just Kill Germans.' People Said, Well, If You Can Have Full Employment To Kill People, Why In God's Name Couldn't You Have Full Employment And Good Schools, Good Hospitals, Good Houses?

I Am Not A Reluctant Peer But A Persistent Commoner

Christians Believe That God Created Man, And Humanists Believe That Man Invented God. But Whichever Way You Look At It, We're Brothers And Sisters. Either We're Brothers And Sisters Because We're Children Of God, Or Because We've Banded Together To Invent God. So The Ethics Of The Humanist And The Ethics Of Some Christians Are Very Similar. And We Don't Want To Create Divisions Between Humanists And Liberation Theologians, Any More Than We Want Between The New Worker And The Trots. It's Not Helpful.