Syria Is Lucky To Have Bashar Al-assad

I've Never Had A Penny Through Oil Deals And No One Has Produced A Shred Of Evidence That I Have.

I Was An Opponent Of Saddam Hussein When The British And American Governments And Businessmen Were Selling Him Guns And Gas.

Saddam Hussein Greeted Me With A Handshake, Which, Again To My Surprise, Is Surprisingly Soft Considering How Many People That Hand Had Dispatched, Allegedly. I Think He's Quite A Forbidding Presence, Too Forbidding A Presence To Be Charming. But He's Interesting.

I Came To Declare That I Am A Friend To Arabs, At A Time When It Is Not Easy To Be Friend To Arabs, Because Nowadays Those Who Have Ambitions And Interests Would Not Befriend Arab.

My Own Experience Of Growing Up As A Roman Catholic In Scotland Has Led Me To Fear Independence In Scotland. The Possibility Of Scotland Being A Kind Of Stormont Is A Real One. I Wrote A Book Recently About Neil Lennon's Year Of Living Dangerously And In The Course Of It I Had To Revisit Some Of My Own Experiences. Of Course, Most Scottish People Are Not Swivel-eyed, Loyalist Sectarians But There Are A Large Number Of Them. A Large Six-figure Number, And If I Were Living In Scotland As A Roman Catholic I Would Be Worried About That.