People aren't universally heroic.

There's a part of me that still hates everything, and my natural view default setting is still very cynical and dark

I feel sorry for many politicians we expect them to be completely consistent and moralised when we're not.

Honestly, sometimes I get really fed up of my subconscious - it's like it's got a mind of its own.

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.

It seems easier to make a career out of comedy now than it was in the 1980s.

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