People are increasingly beginning to feel that democracy itself is being destroyed by this latest phase of globalization and that politics doesn't matter because it changes nothing.

History, when they do it, is ancient history, and they sensationalize even that. Contemporary history is virtually ignored on television.

I've called David Cameron worse things than joker....and a former Prime Minister Tony Blair is widely referred to as a war criminal.

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

I think the Americans fished out the same condom but found it had too many holes in it.

People are increasingly beginning to feel that democracy itself is being destroyed by this latest phase of globalization and that politics doesn't matter because it changes nothing.

We have populations now in the West with a very short memory span. One reason for this short memory span is that television over the last fifteen years has seen a big decline in the coverage of the rest of the world.