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I used to love politics. I can't say I do any more. All the fun has gone out of it. Each side is engaged in this trench warfare of managerialism. They're all too scared to say anything that might make them appear something other than completely bland.

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Everyone thinks politics will just go on the way it is. I don't agree.

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In a way I'm almost more rueful about the notion of having a non-ideological Labour party than I am about the personality of Tony Blair.

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I think a lot of us feel, when we look at the Dow Jones plunging, alienated - you do feel as if we're in the grip of some alien force that slipped human control.

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I was a political journalist; I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power.

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One cannot see any world leader who has got a grip on the financial markets these days. They're too big, too fast. I think that's quite scary.

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Orwell has always been a huge influence on me.

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My parents were interested in history and the world. My father read Graham Greene and Georges Simenon and was a strong trade unionist and Labour supporter.

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I can't get very excited about the House of Commons these days because I don't feel the power is there. What is really bizarre is that you sense it is not in Washington either. It is now very hard even to locate the levers of power, let alone to pull them and change things.

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To tell a good story and to illuminate the world: the two things are completely linked. That is the point. That is what I've always wanted to do.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Novelist

Born: March 7th, 1957

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