We're now in a situation in which Capital is highly mobile and Labour is basically immobile.

We [ with Edward Herman] believe that the empirical evidence we review there - and elsewhere, in a great deal of joint and separate work - lends substantial support to the conclusions; whether that is true is for others to judge.

To some degree it matters who's in office, but it matters more how much pressure they're under from the public.

In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.

Fed and electoral college could use some tinkering, but they are not the source of the problems.

Luckily for [Barack] Obama, the Russians came along and rescued him with this proposal [to confiscate Assad's chemical weapons] which he quickly accepted - it was a way out of the embarrassment of facing likely defeat. They still have the option of bombing if they want to. And incidentally, to add one comment about this, you'll notice that this would be a very good moment to institute a call for imposing the Chemical Weapons Convention on the Middle East.

I don't buy much. Almost buy nothing. I buy what I need, do it the easiest way possible.