I don't see any possibility of Britain and the U.S. allowing a sovereign independent Iraq; that's almost inconceivable.

France has not been able to come to terms with the fact that it's not a major power anymore. I mean even before the Second World War Paris was one of the main centers of intellectual and cultural life. But now Paris is a kind of subsidiary of Germany, their traditional enemy and they can't come to terms with it.

Surely few if any readers have come across the sentence they are now reading, and someone who had by chance heard or seen it could not possibly remember such a fact.

There is no western concern for issues of aggression, atrocities, human rights abuses and so on if there's a profit to be made from them

Technology can be used that way and it can also be used in other ways.

In fact, the capitalist class in the '50s was sort of part of a social contract. It was part of the tenor of the times.

Any little issue - Miss Universe, or whatever it may be - [Donald Trump] is completely unpredictable, he'll go off into outer space.