I don't think that capitalism should be unbridled, if by "unbridled" you mean unregulated.

Green politics at its worst amounts to a sort of Zen fascism; less extreme, it denounces growth and seeks to stop the world so that we can all get off.

I don't think that capitalism should be unbridled, if by "unbridled" you mean unregulated.

Those of us who had a perfectly happy childhood should be able to sue for deprivation of literary royalties.

I suppose I've always carried what is regarded as a bit of unnecessary baggage in Britain. I've always carried the charge that I am an intellectual in politics.

It behaves more like a tribe than a democratic institution...responding to custom rather than reason and using its own liturgy and language for the conduct of its domestic affairs.

There is a sort of exotic preposterousness about a lot of elections, the way arguments are made even cruder.