The most unpredictable thing about the Middle East is the UK.

Crazy how so many British people can walk into Tesco, see 30 self-service checkouts, and still believe that it's immigrants who are taking all the jobs.

The West exported so much democracy to the Middle East, it ran out of it.

In Trump's America, a uterus is more heavily regulated than an assault weapon.

Donald Trump's brain has 2 sides, the right side and the left side. On the left side is nothing right. On the right side is nothing left.

Garry Kasparov is the king of chess. But when it comes to politics, he's just a political pawn.

Political parties are not out of touch for not reflecting popular opinion – it’s because they have lost the art of connecting with people in order to change their minds and to win them over to a different perspective. It is the art of political persuasion, not proficiency in tailing public opinion, that needs to be rediscovered.

Social democratic parties throughout Europe have responded to the rise of the far right by adopting harder rhetoric about migrants. The consequence has been merely to confirm the belief that the far right was right all along and to intensify cynicism towards the mainstream. It has not improved the fortunes of social democracy.

I admire Theresa May, the way snake admires a mongoose.