‘I wonder whether people would take Pastor Martin Niemöller's poem seriously in a version beginning "First they came for the tombola . . ."?'

"First Peres, then Netanyahu, and other Israeli leaders sing. They all have passably good voices-a nation in the strangest surroundings enjoying itself"

‘Why can’t we alter the conversation on art from “But is it art?” to “Is it any good?”’

‘I have always held that everything to do with “interfaith dialogue” should be regarded with intense suspicion’