Much of what is called investment is actually nothing more than mergers and acquisitions, and of course mergers and acquisitions are generally accompanied by downsizing.

Cost recovery is the polite way of saying, make families pay to educate their children.

Redistribution of wealth would require enormous amounts of investment. The only time an elite has accepted this has been during crises, such as in America in the 1930s under Roosevelt.

I'm a radical reformist, because between where we are and where I want to go there's a great deal of work, and I won't see the end of this.

We're trying to run a 21st century society and economy with 19th century Darwinian, competitive, crude ideas.

I used to work a lot on food issues and every time somebody predicted that production would be inadequate they got egg on their face a year or two later.

There's people coming in who've never done any politics at all, who've never been in a trade union, they've never been in a political party, they've never done anything, but they do feel a kind of urgency.