Capitalism will behave antisocially if it is profitable for it to do so, and that can now mean human devastation on an unimaginable scale. What used to be apocalyptic fantasy is today no more than sober realism.

The conversion of agnostic High Tories to the Anglican church is always rather suspect. It seems too pat and predictable, too clearly a matter of politics rather than faith.

Works of art cannot save us. They can simply render us more sensitive to what needs to be repaired.

Americans use the word "dream" as often as psychoanalysts do.

Successful revolutions are those which end up by erasing all traces of themselves.

Today, nostalgia is almost as unacceptable as racism.

Language, identity and forms of life are the terms in which political demands are shaped and voiced.