"I have just finished what is, without doubt, the nastiest book I have ever read. It is a new novel entitled Dr. No an…"

"[I]t is about time we destroyed the British class system"

"I would therefore abolish the monarchy and House of Lords, dispossess ... the public schools and Oxford and Cambridge…"

"Before I am denounced as a reactionary fuddy-duddy, let us pause an instant and see exactly what we mean by this "you…"

"But violence is an evil continuum which begins with the inflammatory verbal pursuit of class war, continues with Grun…"

"The article by Roald Dahl in the August Issue of Literary Review is, in my view, the most disgraceful item to appear …"

"This kind of racial abuse is, thank God, rare in British journalism nowadays. The present case is serious, however, b…"

"A Stalin functionary admitted, "Innocent people were arrested: naturally - otherwise no one would be frightened. If p…"

"Men are excessively ruthless and cruel not as a rule out of malice but from outraged righteousness. How much more is …"

"Mussolini was a reluctant fascist because, underneath, he remained a Marxist, albeit a heretical one."