If you live in a global world and you want to champion liberty in it, then you have you got to sign up to that global world.

If you are small and don't particularly want credit for what you are doing, you can achieve a lot.

When we see companies who are in complicit relationships with China, for example, making huge profits by providing China with the very software that enables the state to censor its own people, that is not acceptable. We need to engage with such companies to make their responsibilities clear.

All countries are particular and no models are perfect.

The UN may not be very effective but I am a fan of the idea of the United Nations. I have been there, I know the problems. To parody Winston Churchill: It is the worst system, except we don't have any other.

Many people think that we have no shared value system in the world today but we actually do.

Christian fundamentalists seek to roll back women's right to choose in the United States, and then also insist that money against Aids must not go to organisations that help people obtain their reproductive rights. These are extremely worrying trends.