Most farmers know that their children's future will probably not be in agriculture, but they have a hard time imagining a different life.

Partly, identity politics is a result of economic failure.

We need to learn to work with political systems that are not perfect instead of taking the view: let's first fix the politics, then we'll fix the rest.

Celebrate the excitement of trying build something new and wonderful.

One problem with globalisation is that bad ideas seem to travel faster than good ones; first there was smearing tomato ketchup on everything; then drinking sugar-soaked cocktails ('Cosmo'-politanism) instead of our traditional whisky soda, and now this idea that we should abandon the poor to their fate in order to protect their dignity.

If you happen to be mostly depressed about the state of your life, I don't know whether you feel like doing impulse control.