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

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

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.

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.

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.

In the lexicon of youth which fate reserves For a bright manhood there is no such word As fail.

Capitalism is always evaluated against dreams. Utopia is a dream. It doesn't exist.

We commit not only theoretical error but also moral wrong in objectifying ourselves or other rational beings, ignoring their capacities for free action and communicative interaction with us.

Like birds of passage, the instincts drift the soul adventurously beyond the horizon of sensible things, as if intent on convoying it to the mother country from whence it had flown.

When I'm developing a recipe with brown butter - I know how much butter I want in the end and I so I start with more butter than I'll need.

Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.

The socio-economic impact of gambling addiction is comparable to drug and alcohol addiction

I knew I had to be a journalist because I'm deeply curious about the world.

I always feel compelled to lend my voice to things I strongly believe in.

Duty and dereliction guide thee back to solitude.