Nothing is covered adequately by the BBC. The BBC has become the biggest disappointment - they're just so terrified. And in a way it's not their fault: the parties have used them as a political football.
Irvine WelshJust lock myself in a room, stop answering emails, stop answering the phone and I come out with something.
Irvine WelshI think there is a natural thing that you feel when you've written something taboo because you just don't want to expose the people you're close to.
Irvine WelshMost people in the West are not politicized. They're the most simplistic consumers - they're animals, basically.
Irvine WelshWe have to accept that capitalism is coming to an end. We can't provide paid employment for people, all the industries with technology are counter-intuitive to profit, and we have to have a transition to the conceptualist society. The only way to do it fairly is as a social democracy, a radical social democracy, which isn't compromised by neo-liberalism and isn't compromised by the rich, and isn't compromised by hegemonic, authoritarian interests: to have that balance between the government, the private sector, and then the individual citizens again.
Irvine Welsh