“The perpetrators of the bombing at the Grand Hotel, Brighton, could be hanged for high treason. ... They are just as guilty as Guy Fawkes was 380 years ago.”

— Alfred Denning, Baron Denning

Speech to a Foyles literary luncheon (17 October 1984), quoted in The Times (18 October 1984), p. 2

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