Real Love Is Strange And Changeable… But

I Always Found The Extraordinary Loss Of Life In The First World War Very Moving. I Remember Learning About It As A Very Young Child, As An Eight- Or Nine-year-old, Asking My Teachers What Poppies Were For. Every Year The Teachers Would Suddenly Wear These Red Paper Flowers In Their Lapels, And I Would Say 'what Does That Mean?'

I Did A Production Of 'journey's End,' An Rc Sherriff Play About World War I, At The Edinburgh Festival. I Was 18 And It Was The First Time That People I Knew And Loved And Respected Came Up To Me After The Show And Said, 'you Know, You Could Really Do This If You Wanted To.'

I Don't Want To Name Names Because I Don't Want To Draw Too Many Direct Comparisons But The History Of Fascism Is Populated By People Who Need To Subjugate Other People And Elevate Their Status And Power To A Level Which Is Supreme. Usually, Any Psychological Study Of Those People Will Reveal A Sort Of Lost, Damaged Child, Who Is Somehow Heartbroken And Doesn't Have Any Self-worth.

I’d Like To Fight Everybody Who Wants To Make War On People. I’d Like To Fight Bullies, Actually. I’d Like To Stand Up To The Bullies In This World. I Was Actually Mugged Once In London, And I Was Completely Defenseless. They Came At Me With A… I Was Held At Knifepoint. And I Felt So Angry That I Let Them Do It And I Think I’d Like To Go Back And Say ‘look, It’s Okay’, And If They Tried To Stab Me, I Could Just Say ‘you Can Stop That Now’.

Real Love Is Strange And Changeable… But Also Somehow Constant.