People aren't universally heroic.

People used to think I was just a shouty comic but I was doing stuff about Sartre.

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

Most of my friends are women - I quite fancied being a woman in a way.

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.

Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, may have had his charms, but he really couldn't be considered hip.

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