The great and the good will decide what is good for us and make sure that we get what is good for us, good and hard.

I am married to a girl from Hamburg, so no one need tell me about the dangers of living in a German dominated household.

Greece isn't a democracy now it's run through a troika - three foreign officials that fly into Athens airport and tell the Greeks what they can and can't do.

I think that politics needs a bit of spicing up.

In Britain, what we've done is say to 485 million people, 'You can all come, every one of you. You're unemployed? You've got a criminal record? Please come. You've got 19 children? Please come.' We've lost any sense of perspective on this.

The great and the good will decide what is good for us and make sure that we get what is good for us, good and hard.

I have been unsure, from the start, what the Occupy movement was all about, although I did suspect that it was just fatuous, anti-enterprise, left-wingery.