After 1945 what happened was rather the opposite: with one major exception boundaries stayed broadly intact and people were moved instead.

Today, neither Left nor Right can find their footing.

We have responsibilities for others, not just across space but across time. We have responsibilities to people who came before us. They left us a world of institutions, ideas or possibilities for which we, in turn, owe them something. One of the things we owe them is not to squander them.

I do think we're on the edge of a terrifying world, and that many young people know that but don't know how to talk about it.

We know what things cost but have no idea what they are worth.

If we remain grotesquely unequal, we shall lose all sense of fraternity: and fraternity, for all its fatuity as a political objective, turns out to be the necessary condition of politics itself.

But I'm English. We don't do uplifting.