There are millions of young children being educated to a very narrow-minded view of religion. And it’s out of that education of large numbers of young people that you then get this extremism.
Deportation is a decision taken by the home secretary under statute, The new grounds will include fostering hatred, advocating violence to further a person’s beliefs, or justifying or validating such violence.
There should not be a party within a party.
I am absolutely delighted to give my full support to Gordon as the next leader of the Labour Party and as prime minister and to endorse him fully.
What the commission that myself and Leon Panetta is trying to do is analyze this in two respects. First of all, what’s the right military response and security response?
I don’t like it, to be honest, when politicians make a big thing of their religious beliefs, so I don’t make a big thing of it.
I actually did trouble to read Marx first hand. I found it illuminating in so many ways; in particular, my perception of the relationship between people and the society in which they live was irreversibly altered.
I can’t stand politicians who wear God on their sleeves.
Bill Clinton has been a true leader of the western world. He has been a friend and a counsel to me and other leaders right around the world.
We’ve seen the reality of Saddam’s regime: his thugs prepared to kill their own people, the parading of prisoners of war and now the release of those pictures of executed British soldiers.
There’s a great frustration with the system. There’s a lot of anger out there. But in the end, you need answers and not just anger. But anyway, let me not trespass too much into your politics. I’ve got enough problems in my own politics.
People should go about their daily lives, to work, to live, to travel, to shop, to do the things people did in the same way as they did them before 11 September.
There can be no freedom for Africa without justice; and no justice without declaring war on Africa’s poverty, disease and famine with as much vehemence as we remove the tyrant and the terrorist.
If we are wrong, we will have destroyed a threat that, at its least is responsible for inhuman carnage and suffering. That is something I am confident history will forgive.
Our party: New Labour. Our mission: new Britain. New Labour new Britain.
Nothing is more important to England’s arrangements for the World Cup than the state of David Beckham’s foot.
I think everyone’s had their pound of flesh and now it’s time to move on.
There are solutions that are proper, but they require the painstaking and difficult work of building alliances and also being prepared to analyze the problem realistically. And exactly the same thing is going on my side of the Atlantic as is going on your side of the Atlantic.
I mean, I went to a church school when I was younger and imbibed a certain amount of religion then but it was really in university that I got interested in religion and politics at the same time. I don’t think as if it were one moment of conversion but my spiritual journey really began then.
Yes, I feel I’ve got something to say. If people want to listen, that’s great, and if they don’t, that’s their choice.