Good luck to progressive candidates in U.S. Senate elections against the usual rich, white, racist, women-hating pricks they run against.

I think that the Brexit negotiations have to be a big thing that determines the democratic fight-back and galvanizes democratic Europe again against this rising tide of nationalism.

Sometimes ah think that people become junkies just because they subconsciously crave a wee bit ay silence.

By definition, you have to live until you die. Better to make that life as complete and enjoyable an experience as possible, in case death is shite, which I suspect it will be.

How stagnant and tepid the whole British political scene is now is just beyond belief.

There's no one way of telling a story or looking at reality, so I think any device is up for grabs as long as it fits in with the tone.

It's interesting - you had [George] Osborne crying at [Margaret Tatcher] funeral. She would have been the first person, she would have read these tears as being as fake as the smiles of his predecessors when they knifed her in the back.