Aneurin BevanThinkers

Anthony Eden is the juvenile lead.

Art is our memory of love. The most an artist can do through their work is say, let me show you what I have seen, what I have loved, and perhaps you will see it and love it too.

Clement Attlee is a man who seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle. He brings to the fierce struggle of politics the tepid enthusiasm of a lazy summer afternoon at a cricket match.

Fascism is the future refusing to be born.

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Herbert Morrison is a squalid, backstairs, third-rate Tammany Hall politician.

Hugh Gaitskell is a desiccated calculating machine.

Neutrality is dangerous — we know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.

Neville Chamberlain is a blight on democracy — the worst that can be said about democracy is that it has tolerated the right honorable gentleman for four and half years.

Neville Chamberlain has the lucidity which is the byproduct of a fundamentally sterile mind.

Newspaper is to be read avidly, after all it is one form of continuous fiction.