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

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

All that happens is that the destruction of human beings - unless they're Americans - is called collateral damage.

There's a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics, especially within the sphere of the arts and the theatre.

I believe the US is a truly monstrous force in the world, now off the leash for obvious reasons.

I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz.

I ought not to speak about the dead because the dead are all over the place.