So the opposite of addiction is not sobriety. It is human connection.

Something has gone badly wrong with our culture. We've created a culture where really large numbers of the people around us can't bear to be present in their daily lives. They need to medicate themselves to get through their day.

Your working assumption, when you meet a homophobe, should be that they are gay.

All people deserve respect, but not all ideas do.

I'm so patriotic, I think every British kid should have a chance to grow up to be our head of state.

The greatest trick the rich - and their cheerleaders on the right - ever pulled was convincing the world that class didn't exist. Out here in the real world, it is more real and more rigid than it has been for a century.

The truth emerging from this scattered picture of nuclear proliferation is simple: there is a stronger chance of a nuclear bomb being used now than at almost any point in the Cold War.