Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence.

Choice depends on the freedom to choose and if you are shackled with debt you don't have the freedom to choose.

I have had the advantage of a radical Christian upbringing

I'm interested in language. We used to call it the War Office. Then it became the Ministry of Defence. We used to talk about the hydrogen bomb, now we talk about a deterrent. And the language is very cleverly constructed to give the impression that it's not what it is.

I met somebody once who said, "I'm a lapsed-atheist" by what he meant was, "I don't believe in God but the older I get the more I realise there is a spirituality in everybody that has to be cherished and nourished." That made a lot of sense to me.

The one thing that is absolutely essential is that there shouldn't be any governmental control [of the media] directly or indirectly.

I think democracy is the most revolutionary thing in the world, because if you have power you use it to meet the needs of you and your community.