But as in all cults, what's central to the Communist Party is the belief system and the elimination of nuance. From there you're very slowly led down the road to fanaticism and mass murder.

People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.

I don't think I'd ever get thin, but I don't see why I should necessarily think that I couldn't You can't live your life for your routines.

Everyone I used to work with is still alive and can afford expensive lawyers.

I did six series for the BBC and that was enough. I've been writing for ten years, which is more challenging artistically.

My name is Alexei Yuri Gagarin Siege of Stalingrad Glorious Five Year Plan Sputnik Tractor Moscow Dynamo Back Four Balowski. Me Dad was a bit of a Communist, know what I mean?

I don't think people were that interested in what I was doing for the most of the 1990s.