The world today is divided into the free and the enslaved.

Power is sexy, not simply in its own right, but because it inspires self-confidence in its owner and a shiver of subservience on the part of those who approach it.

All share complicity in the destruction of that much under-rated phenomenon called liberty.

It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World.

When faced with the inevitable fatigue that comes with the recycling of speeches and the recycling of thoughts in a rather small stream of vortex, I am urged to not be ashamed of recycling.

There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military dictators of Latin America and the apartheid regime of South Africa.

The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.