I grew up in musical theatre and love to perform on stage.
There is no compromise when it comes to corruption. You have to fight it.
All my life I have fought corruption.
If only Queen Elizabeth II had the intellectual, political and linguistic skills of Queen Elizabeth I, many people would support giving her some of the powers of an elected president.
It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.
In the past, I used to counter any such notions by asking myself: 'Would you really want President Hattersley?' I now find that possibility rather cheers me up. With his chubby, Dickensian features and his knowledge of T.H. Green and other harmless leftish political classics, Hattersley might not be such a bad thing after all.
'In Memoriam' has been my companion for all my grownup life.
If you read about Mussolini or Stalin or some of these other great monsters of history, they were at it all the time, that they were getting up in the morning very early. They were physically very active. They didn't eat lunch.
I suppose if I'd got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today, but I hope not. People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.
We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.
