• Once upon a time, I thought that politics was the name we gave to our higher instincts. That was before Margaret Thatcher, who came to power when I was 11 years old.

    Andrew O'Hagan: Once upon a time, I thought that politics was the name we gave to our higher instincts. That was before Margaret Thatcher, who came to power when I was 11 years old.
    "Looking back on New Labour" by Andrew O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. April 3, 2010.