“People in that crowd want to make poverty history, but NOT if they have to pay for it themselves”

“New York will always seem more real than anything Britain has to offer. It is strange that, although the majority of British people have never seen a skate-boarding body-popper, an exploding fire-hydrant, or anybody dunk a doughnut, these things seem infinitely more immediate and happening images than that jar of Horlicks which has stood in the cupboard for 40 years”

“Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar. You have to hold it, you have to read it.”

“To positively discriminate in favour of groups that have been negatively discriminated against in the past.”

“The internet was supposed to liberate knowledge, but in fact it buried it, first under a vast sewer of ignorance, laziness, bigotry, superstition and filth and then beneath the cloak of political surveillance. Now...cyberspace exists exclusively to promote commerce, gossip and pornography. And of course to hunt down sedition. Only paper is safe. Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar, you have to hold it, you have to read it.”

“So far no one has claimed responsibility.”

“The reactionary point of view was always so easy to put, the complex, radical argument always so easy to put down.”