I think ideas should be flying about and banging into each other. It is a kind of energy. If you occupy static positions, then things sort of ossify.

I wish I could write lyrical poems, but I just write the way they come.

I think protest and actions have to be organised against the Israelis and their backers. There needs to be a concerted high profile campaign to raise awareness of the people in this country.

You are either a Zionist or an anti-Zionist.

I'm kind of domestic, untidily so.

In my view the European culture carries a very heavy responsibility for the creation of Israel... it is a product of both British and Stalin's anti- Semitism, but the British never faced their own complicity in its construction.

All I do is read books, really. I worry about that sometimes. I don't seem to have a hobby or anything.