If we were to lose the ability to be emotional, if we were to lose the ability to be angry, to be outraged, we would be robots. And I refuse that.

The UID is a corporate scam which funnels billions of dollars into the IT sector

There are things that you can't do - like writing letters to a part of yourself. To your feet or hair. Or heart.

The crisis of modern democracy is a profound one. Free elections, a free press and an independent judiciary mean little when the free market has reduced them to commodities available on sale to the highest bidder.

The people who are getting rich can't imagine that the world is not a better place.

So here we have it. The equivocating distinction between civilisation and savagery, between the "massacre of innocent people" or, if you like, "a clash of civilisations" and "collateral damage". The sophistry and fastidious algebra of infinite justice.

It was a time when the unthinkable became the thinkable and the impossible really happened