Global warming could be solved by shifting three to four per cent of global GDP to pay for it.

I think democracy's undermined when those who own newspapers fill them with trivia rather than real issues.

The idea that the GLC should be abolished at a stroke is ill though out, undemocratic and will cost the people of London dear.

I'm never going to take the view that I should say whatever I need to say in order to achieve something. Because that implies a level of dishonesty.

I grew up in a house with very few books.

It would actually be quite nice if the American ambassador in Britain could pay the [congestion] charge that everybody else is paying and not actually try and skive out of it like some chiselling little crook.

The world is run by monsters and you have to deal with them. Some of them run countries, some of them run banks, some of them run news corporations.