Why were the Europeans bothered about the Soviet Union at all? It was nothing to do with us. China had nothing to do with us. Why were we not building, without reference to the Soviet Union, a good society in our own countries? But no, we were all - in one way or another - obsessed with the bloody Soviet Union, which was a disaster. What people were supporting was failure. And continually justifying it.

It was OK, us being Reds during the war, because we were all on the same side. But then the Cold War started. Almost overnight we became enemies of people who …

I'm always astounded at the way we automatically look at what divides and separates us. We never look at what people have in common. If you see it, black and w…

The automatic reaction of practically any young person is, at once, against authority. That, I think, began in the First World War because of the trenches, and…

A time is marked not so much by ideas that are argued about as by ideas that are taken for granted. The character of an era hangs upon what needs no defense. P…

While liberals appeared to be safely in power, feminists could perhaps afford the luxury of defining Larry Flynt or Roman Polanski as Enemy Number One. Now tha…

Sometimes we get so caught up in language, and 'this' word and 'that' word, that we lose site of the bigger problems in the world. At one time, the word 'Bitch…