It is scarcely a mark of intellectual profundity to have noticed that our society is big.

No, I don't think I've ever really favoured English independence. My view is that if the Scots want to be independent then we should aim for the same thing.

My main argument is that environmental destruction comes when people externalise their costs and pass them on to future generations. That is obviously something that large enterprises do and they become large by doing it.

Environmental degradation has one cause above all others: the propensity of human beings to take the benefit and leave the costs to someone else, preferably someone far away in space or time, whose protests can be safely ignored.

Buildings like Penn Station attract our protective instincts not only because of their beauty but because we fear what will come to replace them.

The rude, raw, 'let it all hang out' freedom of the Californian hippies was in fact the most censorious and oppressive of societies that I have encountered.

My 2018 ended with a hate storm, in response to my appointment as chair of the government's Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission.

My life divides into three parts. In the first I was wretched; in the second ill at ease; in the third hunting.

A lot of the Qur'an is, frankly, cantankerous, vitriolic, man-hating stuff.