“If you want respect, you earn it in politics. You don't get it because...” — Colm Keaveney Quote

If you want respect, you earn it in politics. You don't get it because you are some form of bloody emperor in a toga.

Discipline and unconditional support is earned by understanding and trust and inclusion. Not by isolation, not by nasty tricks.

There is little or no point being chair of the Labour Party and being ignored when engaging with Labour ministers when you're trying to articulate something that affects ordinary people in society.

I couldn't bloody believe a prime-time TV show would have an Iraqi ex-Republican Guard torturer as a main character.

There's nothing bloody wrong with wanting it at all.

In the days of the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle, our women waged a bloody struggle with weapons in their hands to liberate their country.

I'm a hell of a bloody good dancer.

Turns out it's bloody hard to make a sculpture that looks like a human head, so I've not bothered. Realism is for squares.