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

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

What we are seeing in Turkey is a non-uniformed authoritarian regime led by a politician, Tayyip Erdogan, who has allowed power to go to his head and is behaving more and more like a despot. Sooner or later this will provoke political uprisings throughout the country as happened after Gezi.

The "coalition against terrorism" means the United States. It does not wish anyone else to interfere with its strategy.

The European Union is a union of the extreme center. It's a banker's union. You see how they operate in country after country, appointing technocrats to take over and run countries for long periods. They did it in Greece; they did it in Italy; they considered it in other parts of Europe.

In many parts of the Islamic world, secular forces, where they exist, tend to be so unsure of themselves, so lacking in self-confidence, that in many cases they line themselves up fairly squarely behind the imperial project and that then creates a big vacuum in which the Islamists become the dominant power because they are the only ones then who are seen as resisting.

The past has too much knowledge embedded in it, and therefore it's best to forget it and start anew.