My dad was a militant atheist, or is a militant atheist. My mum was sort of bought up in a religious family because she was a Protestant from Ireland but wasn't especially religious.

A lot of the politics that is going on left and right at the moment is more about a protest, which we should respond to. It's not often about a policy. And that's why what you get is this strange coalition of different views of what the future should be, coming together in alliance to protest against the status quo.

Their barbarism will stand as their shame for all eternity.

Fifteen years ago, if you said business will help save the environment people would have laughed at you. Today, I believe that is a serious proposition.

We are all internationalists now, whether we like it or not...

Society works by putting opportunity and responsibility together.

Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war.