Yes, OK, farty is a silly word. I wish I'd never used it. I'm 34. Perhaps it was a word for my 20s.

Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.

I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition - and I have never suffered from it.

I don't consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother.

You think I look like a teletubby?

You're mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund

We've all got to look at ourselves, start with yourself, that's all you can do. I believe that we can act responsibly as a group, it's just that there are vested interests telling us not to bother.