"Some people are so Scottish, it looks like it hurts them."

"Once you give people the idea that all this can be done by the State, and that it is somehow second-best or even degrading to leave it to private people...then you will begin to deprive human beings o…"

"It is a real tragedy for a nation when three groups of its people, namely politicians, religionists and civil society workers, just pretend to be generous."

"As I see it humanity needs to reduce its impact on the Earth urgently and there are three ways to achieve this: we can stop consuming so many resources, we can change our technology and we can reduce …"

"The idea that lack of paternal guidance can explain today's masculinity crisis doesn't make sense. I suspect rather that underneath the sons' charge that their fathers did not teach them how to be men…"