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I don't want to be complacent.
I have a reputation for infamy.
I do not condone the use of violence.
The paternalism of the Conservative party is breathtaking.
I think the idea of journalists being neutral is very important.
The idea of a private life has been eroded in the sphere of politics.
I am rather proud of my modest contribution to bringing democracy home.
Sometimes, we just take too much glee in the downfall of people in power.
One thing we can be sure of is that Brexit will leave its mark on the E.U.
Often I go to book festivals and they just turn authors into celebrities.'
I could be earning a lot of money as a consultant, or gone higher in education.
If you are a young, white, straight man in today's society, you are in trouble.
I have fought for open immigration which is something I disagree with Nigel Farage on.
I'm not Tory but I do happen to think that the Government should be allowed to govern.
Some who campaign against hate, seem to hate the Brexit party more than they love peace.
If a boy pings a girl's bra it may be unpleasant and annoying, but is it really assault?
The truth is the Tories don't own Brexit. No party owns Brexit and that includes the Brexit Party.
Yes, we know that obesity is an issue, but it isn't the end of the world as is reported everywhere.
Democrats need to value free speech and we should not be intimidated into giving an inch of it away.
I do not want to give the state and the authorities the right to ban things on the Internet - no ifs.
Brexit has acted as a catalyst encouraging more people to think and vote outside of traditional party loyalties.
To hear the Conservatives issue a command that all Leave voters must vote Tory, this seems insultingly complacent.
I confess I had butterflies doing the first BBC 'Politics Live' of 2020. It felt like the first day back at school.
Free speech is carelessly tossed to one side in order to silence views and people that liberals label as intolerant.
One of the great things about journalism, at its best I mean, is its forensic, investigative truth seeking instincts.
You see, Leavers desperately need a psychological win. We need to feel our vote for change can actually change things.
Without democracy, we are voiceless subjects. But with it, we are citizens armed with the power to change our destinies.
If you feel you're being condescended to and not taken seriously in the discussion, that can make people feel defensive.
Sloganeering and name-calling have been some of the most unsavoury aspects of Leave/Remain conflicts over the past few years.
The first job of the Brexit Party is to make sure Brexit's delivered and if that involves electoral pacts, that might happen.
I can only look at what Labour has done to the NHS here in Wales and it's not a good story. That includes on education as well.
What I have always thought is that there should be a proper national conversation about what kind of immigration policies we have.
I joined the RCP (Revolutionary Communist Party) in the early '80s. I'd be in it still but it was wound up at the end of the nineties.
TV and radio debates seem inflamed, with all that shouting, but real disagreement is always avoided; they conceal their lack of content.
The notion that one's home is one's castle and you can pull up the drawbridge is not one that people in public policy circles believe in.
I still consider myself a liberal in the Enlightenment sense of the word. But I have to admit that being a liberal these days is confusing.
Whenever excessive regulation is on the horizon, you can guarantee our kids will be wheeled out as a battering ram against adult opposition.
For many Leavers, having been demonised in the vilest terms as racists, stupid and worse, it is hard to simply employ a hug-a-Remainer approach.
My political views have never made me insensitive to the pain and suffering caused to the innocent victims of events such as the Warrington bomb.
I am ever hopeful that there are generations of young Chinese people who are really thinking about the future and what kind of society they want.
We should start off with the premise that people that we're disagreeing with are like ourselves. Try and work out why they think what they think.
For me, normal means freedom to live life as we choose, from cramming into packed planes to go on holiday to crowding into pubs for birthday parties.
The media are so key in a national emergency, especially when opposition parties in the U.K. are - let us say - largely in disarray, even leaderless.
I am a passionate supporter of liberty, equality and popular sovereignty. These values have been championed by democratic giants for hundreds of years.
I think there's a presumption of a climate emergency which I don't think there is. I think there's a climate problem, I don't think there's an emergency.
Retreating to indefinite lockdown culture would mean surrendering what makes life worth living, a far more tragic cost than anything inflicted by a virus.
I'm very interested in the new industrial revolution, what we do in terms of energy, developing the north, ensuring there are jobs and that kind of vision.
I am generally enthusiastic about cities. Here in the West there is a panic. Every time we have a debate about cities, we talk about the problems of cities.
I continue to take inspiration from John Locke, John Stuart Mill and those more recent freedom fighters of the 1960s who challenged conformism and repression.
Theresa May, a Remainer, assumed that all of the Brexit voters are racist, thinks we will use this to kick British citizens out of the country; it is despicable.