A modest dose of self-love is entirely healthy - who would want to live in a world where everyone hated themselves? But taken too far it soon becomes poisonous.

The central position of finance capital is going to come to an end, and it's going to steadily move to the sides, the margins of our society, transformed from being a master into a servant, a servant to the productive economy and of human needs.

Everyone knows of great projects that were too dependent on a charismatic individual, or simply too expensive to be replicated.

Democratic nation states remain far more capable of managing the circuit of coercion, taxation and legitimation than any transnational bodies.

I can think of nothing worse than a think-tank where everybody agreed.

A lot of people in government don't really read books at all.

The most dynamic cities have always been immersed in the critical innovations of their time.