These days you can't write anybody off. If anybody is a right-wing populist, you can't write them off now because that is the rising tide of our time.
Irvine WelshI don't think that the Scots are happy to drift into Britain becoming the poorest of the poor, sub-American 51st state.
Irvine WelshI was in Athens for a football match when 9/11 went down, and it was quite spectacular - we went into this bar and tried to find out what happened, and the bartender said "it's only the American and the Arabs. They're not big football nations." So the feeling was, what's it got to do with us? Why are football games being cancelled in Europe? The intelligentsia in the West feel like they have to figure out the significance of it all, whereas people have other pressing concerns, related to basic needs.
Irvine Welsh