I've instinctively hated the Tories since birth.

The iPad falls between two stools - not quite a laptop, not quite a smartphone. In other words, it's the spork of the electronic consumer goods world.

It's a barrel of laughs, isn't it? It makes The Day After look like friggin'...insert name of cheerful thing here. It was one of the things that made me really worry about worst-case scenarios. There's something impish and probably somewhat therapeutic about thinking about those things.

My kids are very young. I'm sure there's a world of horror for me to worry about as they get older.

[Black Mirror] is always about unforeseen consequences and unforeseen problems, it's not usually that someone's created a machine that they want to enslave mankind with, it's someone's invented a new kind of... paperweight that enslaves mankind.

On the other hand [making a string of one-off episodes], there's a real freedom, because you're kind of reinventing the show every week.

The logic for me, in writing it is that the different areas or different years are almost like different rooms.