If Milosevic is to be tried, he has to be tried by a proper court, an impartial, properly constituted court which has international respect.

Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean, don't they, and Tony Blair's smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound contempt.

I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights.

The Companion of Honour I regarded as an award from the country for 50 years of work - which I thought was okay.

Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.

The invasion of Iraq was a bandit act, an act of blatant state terrorism, demonstrating absolute contempt for the concept of international law.

I believe an international criminal court is very much to be desired.