Education is not for profit. If you're not in education for profit, it's not going to be a fair critique for education.

I choose to live in what I think is the greatest country in the world, which is committing horrendous terrorist acts and should stop.

In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.

What I've called "the Mafia doctrine" in many publications: when the Godfather issues an edict, others must obey, or else. It's too dangerous to allow disobedience. A leading principle of world affairs - though, of course, officials and commentators put it more politely.

Iceland is capitalist social democratic, rather like the Nordic countries generally. The capital had a mayor who is an anarchist, but the city has been nothing like that. In fact a few years ago it was super-neoliberal, which led to the crash.

It is an astonishing fact about the current era that in the most powerful country in world history, with a high level of education and privilege, one of the two political parties virtually denies the well-established facts about anthropogenic climate change.

People have no human rights, only the rights that they can gain on the labour market. Above all, wealth and power have to be protected.