We no longer ask of a judicial ruling or a legislative act: is it good? Is it fair? Is it just? Is it right? Will it help bring about a better society or a better world? Those used to be the political questions, even if they invited no easy answers. We must learn once again to pose them.

Love consists in leaving the loved one space to be themselves while providing the security within which that self may flourish.

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

I'm not sure I've learned anything new about life; but I've had to think harder about death and what comes after for other people.

It does irritate me when I am described as a controversialist and commentator on Israel.

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

Although the United States lost a quarter of a million men and women, civilians and soldiers, in World War II, that's considerably less than the Russians lost in soldiers at the Battle of Stalingrad alone. It's important to convey to countries and to people and to generations who have no experience of the 20th century as it was lived in Europe just how catastrophic it was.