It's ironic that early on in the war with Afghanistan, the Americans and the British were saying, 'We recognise there must be a Palestinian state,' then they rapidly forgot about it. I think history will show that that kind of amnesia will come back to haunt you.
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You are either a Zionist or an anti-Zionist.
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I'm kind of domestic, untidily so.
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I think ideas should be flying about and banging into each other. It is a kind of energy. If you occupy static positions, then things sort of ossify.
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I do most of the cooking. I'm kind of domestic, untidily so.
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Many black people I know are proud of the Irish part of their heritage - an Irish grandparent, say - but they recognise that many people believe in a form of racial purity. And it is from that belief that prejudice starts.
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One of the strongest features of Puritanism is its autobiographical tendency, its passionate self-regard.
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I never believed that Israel had the right to exist at all.
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In my view the European culture carries a very heavy responsibility for the creation of Israel... it is a product of both British and Stalin's anti- Semitism, but the British never faced their own complicity in its construction.