My own experience of growing up as a Roman Catholic in Scotland has led me to fear independence in Scotland. The possibility of Scotland being a kind of Stormont is a real one. I wrote a book recently about Neil Lennon's year of living dangerously and in the course of it I had to revisit some of my own experiences. Of course, most Scottish people are not swivel-eyed, loyalist sectarians but there are a large number of them. A large six-figure number, and if I were living in Scotland as a Roman Catholic I would be worried about that.

We reject this illegal, barbarous, savage state that calls itself Israel. And you have to do the same.

Stop invading Muslims lands! How can you expect Muslims to love you when you are forcefully occupying their lands and murdering their people?

This murder of Hariri was deliberately planned and executed precisely to implicate Syria and to set in train the events which have unfolded.

Canada has sent an army of 1,000 soldiers to occupy the Muslim country of Afghanistan (and ships to the Persian Gulf).

Some things are too important to be left to the private sector.

They say that politics is show business for ugly people, but as I always crack, what would I know about that? I like a challenge