“If Milosevic is to be tried, he has to be tried by a proper court, an impartial, properly constituted court which has international respect.”
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There's a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics, especially within the sphere of the arts and the theatre.
Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.
I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights.
I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?