Some bosses believe they can't afford to employ someone legitimately - so they employ them illegally.

People-trafficking is modern day slavery. There are more slaves today than there were at the height of the slave trade.

Oh yeah, I'm an Essex boy and proud of it.

Riots born out of political issues aren't the same as those born out of personal greed.

I don't think you should go into politics until you can stand on your own two feet economically, if possible, and you know enough about the world.

What's always got me is the fact that when people talked on the telly about Iraq, before Afghanistan kicked off, you'd get only these public-school-type army officers talking about what was going on out there. I kept thinking, 'Why don't we get the true voice of the squaddie? Why don't we hear from the lads on the battlefield?'

If you offer me a job sitting in a Winnebago with make-up girls and free food, I'm probably going to take it.