‘People now live under the misapprehension that the hysterical attitude is the correct one and the pitch at which we should all conduct our lives’

‘Britain is in the most complicated mess we have been in for decades’

‘Bernard-Henry Lévy and I debated populism, with Tony Blair as our warm-up act, at Google’s Zeitgeist event’

‘Society’s rewarding of outrage means we are ever less-inclined to give people what we used to call “the benefit of the doubt”’