Arthur Scargill’s leadership of the miners’ strike has been a disgrace. The price to be paid for his folly will be immense. He will have destroyed th…

- Jimmy Reid

From the very depth of my being, I challenge the right of any man or any group of men, in business or in government, to tell a fellow human being tha…

- Jimmy Reid

Profit is the sole criterion used by the establishment to evaluate economic activity. From the rat race to lame ducks. The vocabulary in vogue is a g…

- Jimmy Reid

The political spectrum is not linear but circular. In my experience the extreme left always ends up rubbing shoulders with the extreme right. They ar…

- Jimmy Reid

Dictators can fix up their entire families in good jobs, in or around government, and often do. In democracies, such a practice is frowned upon. Priv…

- Jimmy Reid

Government by the people for the people becomes meaningless unless it includes major economic decision-making by the people for the people. This is n…

- Jimmy Reid

The task of the media in a democracy is not to ease the path of those who govern, but to make life difficult for them by constant vigilance as to how…

- Jimmy Reid

From the Olympian heights of an executive suite, in an atmosphere where your success is judged by the extent to which you can maximise profits, the o…

- Jimmy Reid

A rat race is for rats. We're not rats. We're human beings. Reject the insidious pressures in society that would blunt your critical faculties to all…

- Jimmy Reid