Thought For The Day: Tony Benn

“No, I’m not frightened about death, I don’t know why but I just feel that at a certain moment your switch is switched off and that’s it. And you can’t do anything about it."

Tony Benn in the Sunday Mirror.

The last volume of Tony's awesome series of diaries, A Blaze Of Autumn Sunshine, will appear in the autumn (appropriately).
You can watch a "sneak preview" of the forthcoming documentary fillum, Will And Testament, here.

But just by setting out the case for a genuinely free and independent press and broadcasting system explains precisely why the top people would never agree - for they understand better what a transformation it would bring about in the political climate of the nation, which is the last thing they want...

Tony Benn on The Media And Politics, 2002.