Proximity to power has an unsurprising ability to mutate a politician's spinal cord into bright yellow jelly.

It's a total failure of the Western imagination that the only enemy they can see is Adolph Hitler.

Tragedies are always discussed as if they took place in a void, but actually each tragedy is conditioned by its setting, local and global. The events of 11 September 2001 are not exception.

The function of a bourgeois democracy is to secure the consent of the masses to their own exploitation and oppression.

Tony Blair is a war criminal.

Effectively, the EU is a very powerful bureaucracy, dominated now by the German elite, which is backed by the rest of the European Union members.

How we live our lives does not,unfortunately depend on us alone.Circumstances,good or bad,constantly intervene.A person close to us die.A person not so close to us carries on living.All these things affect how we live.