In America, we've got to get back to these base principles of what democracy is.

Every kind of book I've written has been written in a different way. There has not been any set time for writing, any set way, I haven't re-invented the process every time but I almost have.

I've always felt really good about England. I've always felt really, really good about Britain.

Thoughts jostled for space in my crowded brain as I struggled to give them some order which might serve to motivate my listless life

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

I'm not interested in details that might get someone into trouble. I'm more interested in generalities rather than the particulars, as a journalist would be. Names, dates and times don't interest me at all. I'm interested in feelings and emotions. Most people are game, once they realize that you're on the level as far as that's concerned and you're not about exposing them, then they feel quite free to talk about it. Police officers and social workers are no exception.

In America I think we need to move towards a social democracy, European-style basically, and I think that in Britain we do as well.