It's true: one of the things that I've always thought about American society is that you never get the sort of natural politicisation of class consciousness that you would get in the United Kingdom or even in Australia.

People in the United Kingdom and outside the United States share my bemusement with the United States that America doesn't share with itself.

European countries simply do not have the ideological framework the United States has in the shape of the 'American dream' that has helped to absorb successfully wave after wave of immigration to the States, including Muslim Americans who are well integrated into American society. There is no analogous French dream or German dream.

American society will never completely understand the true meaning of equality.

I don't want to be Prime Minister of England, I want to be Prime Minister of the whole of the United Kingdom.

I happen to belong to that group opinion which holds the break-up of the United Kingdom to be imminent.