You can tell that the capitalist system is in trouble when people start talking about capitalism.

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

All communication involves faith; indeed, some linguisticians hold that the potential obstacles to acts of verbal understanding are so many and diverse that it is a minor miracle that they take place at all.

Historical determinism is a recipe for political quietism.

Like the rest of us, Tom Paulin is a bundle of contradictions. At its finest, his work is brave, adventurous, original and wonderfully idiosyncratic.

Nothing in human life is inherently private.

Evil may be 'unscientific' but so is a song or a smile.