All I will say is that there are particular features of the American constitutional system that renders a third party futile - at best.

The mobilisation which Bush has been able to perform since 11 September 2001 has to be fought - at least by Americans - in the name of a wise, honourable and democratic patriotism.

I am a realist as well as an idealist, and I think that it is incumbent upon those of us in opposition to try to work within what are always arduous circumstances to stretch the limits of the possible.

Some versions of patriotism come close to the tribal, which we all want to surpass, and some don’t.

The moguls are driven by their respective desires for profit - period.

Right now, we have no possibility of politics because we have a one-party state.

My business is the analytical framework.