Gun crime is a major cause of fear and distress throughout the UK. The problem is deeply entrenched in a wide range of social and cultural factors and therefore not an isolated issue.

I was a postman one Christmas and I developed a morbid fear of dogs.

White people love playing 'divide & rule'. We should not play their game.

Being an MP is a good job, the sort of job all working-class parents want for their children -- clean, indoors and no heavy lifting. What could be nicer?

Outsiders often have an insight that an insider doesn't quite have.

I'm a West Indian mum and West Indian mums will go to the wall for their children.

I'm not the only Labour MP who sent their child to public school but I'm the only one who's questioned about it.

My forebears refused to cut the sugar cane for plantation owners, and I am recognisably a product of that background.

When fast food is not a treat but a dietary staple, the children surf the internet all day in dark corners of the room and are bombarded with latest gadgets. Things replace parental standards.

It is time Britain put its trust back into the Labour Party. I believe I am the candidate that can make this happen precisely because I am not associated with the past.

So long as the UK continues to maintain its own identity, it is my belief that the US and the UK should maintain close relations.

Each morning offers lessons in light. For the morning light teaches the most basic of truths: Light chases away darkness.

You were scared they were going to laugh at you, right? So let them! People who discourage others will never find their own happiness!

Most joyful let the Poet be it is through him that all men see.

I couldn't do anything. I'd work in a department store for a couple of weeks, but I couldn't hack it. I couldn't even type! I had no skills whatsoever outside of show business.

When I was a kid, I was a big science fiction fan, but current horror books were harder to get your hands on.

There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.

Then at the top of the hill, the road forks. Which just figures. "You gotta be kidding." I say. One part of the road goes left, the other goes right. (Well, it's a "Fork" ain't it?)

It's not like I'm just trying to win and get elected. I'm trying to change the course of history.

When God gave men tongues, he never dreamed that they would want to talk about the Himalayas; there are consequently no words in the world to do it with.

An expert must be BOLD if he hopes to alchemize his homespun theory into conventional wisdom.