I can establish the expectation of retributive justice. Have we done that? No.

What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party.

Truth and reconciliation' are always combined, but I would split them: I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.

One of the great barriers to peace in the Middle East is that both sides, both Israel and the Palestinians, do not understand that they share a collective destiny.

Blair is regarded by most people in Britain as a smarmy git.

The generous way of putting it is that we were not ready for this. The less generous way is to say: How was it possible to return to the politics of appeasement of the 1930s?

In the modern age where everything is connected to everything, the most important thing about what you can do is what you can do with others.