I Was In A Little Punk Band

An Isolationist America Is No Bloody Use To Anyone.

Whether We Like It Or Not, We Live In A Post-ideological World. That's How A Donald Trump Can Get Through. He Has No Ideology At All: In That Sense, He's A Bit Like Mussolini. I Think That Ultimately Trump Will Lose The Election And In The Process Destroy The Republican Party - But Then I'm An Optimist, Ha Ha Ha! So He Might Not Lose. He Might Be In Charge Of The Largest Nuclear Arsenal In The World!

The Idea That Musicians Should Be Talking About Politics Is, In Some Ways, Quite A Sixties' Idea. Music No Longer Has A Vanguard Role In Youth Culture.

Britain Is A Great Country. We Can More Or Less Say What We Like, And We Can Walk Down The Street Without Anyone Trying To Kill Us. I Know It's Tough For Some People, But Generally We Live In A Caring Society. We Live In A Great Country, But We're No Longer A Great Power. Part Of The Problem With Some Elements Of The European Debate Is That They Hanker For The Days When We Were A Great Power. Those Days Are Gone, And They Went A Long Time Ago.

I'm Just Saying That We Need To Find A Better Way To Manifest The Broader Society's Aspirations, Politically. The Key To It Has To Be Some Sort Of Proportional Representation, Which Allows There To Be More Parties.