Tony Benn: A veteran campaigner for social justice

The Last Diaries: A Blaze of Autumn Sunshine by Tony Benn

Winston Churchill had an exceptional ability to describe vast swathes of human behaviour with a clever one-liner. Here is a great example: “If you are not a liberal at 20 you have no heart, if you are not a conservative at 40 you have no brain.”

While you may not agree entirely with Churchill’s axiom here, it drives home a very valid point: that people’s political allegiances tend to drift to the right as they get older.