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I think a lot of us feel, when we look at the Dow Jones plunging, alienated - you do feel as if we're in the grip of some alien force that... →
Leaders today are isolated by phalanxes of body guards. It's profoundly undemocratic, the way they have used terrorism as a means to protect... →
One gains a double benefit in writing about the past, conjuring up how things might have been, and at the same time acquiring a different perspective... →
Social mores change all the time. In the mid-1970s, it would've been astonishing, say, to see two men holding hands in the streets. And the... →
In a way I'm almost more rueful about the notion of having a non-ideological Labour party than I am about the personality of Tony Blair.
I think it's very, very hard not to go slightly crazy if you're in the top in politics - especially if you're there for a long time.
I was a political journalist; I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power.
Politics is never a victory, it's just the remorseless grinding forward of events.
First comes an idea. Then, characters begin to evolve out of the landscape of that idea. And then, finally, characters dominate: plot is simply a... →
Cicero most reminds me of Harold Wilson. Both men knew how to keep the show on the road.
Everyone thinks politics will just go on the way it is. I don't agree.
History is what we bring to it, not just the events themselves, but how we interpret those events.
I think that whenever a nation feels itself to be at is zenith, it starts to feel a creeping sense of anxiety.
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