If voting changed anything, they'd abolish it.

Global warming could be solved by shifting three to four per cent of global GDP to pay for it.

I spent the 1960s and 1970s seeking myself - the working-class tradition of self-education.

I think it's much more important to keep people in work than have pay rises.

I've always been a workaholic. I reckon, on average, I've had less than one day a year off in my working career.

I'm an emotional person; I do occasionally shed a tear.

The world is run by monsters and you have to deal with them. Some of them run countries, some of them run banks, some of them run news corporations.

I do explicitly see Jewish people as a people - not either a religion or an ethnicity but a people.

The best way to demonstrate the values of a western democracy is you put Osama bin Laden on trial; you challenge what he says.