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Nostalgia for dead tyrants and the longing for heroes are unhealthy, and they can result in the deification of a Saddam as easily as a Havel or Mandela.

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September 11th has produced only miniature heroes because our culture has freed itself from many of the old, dangerous, elitist fantasies of heroism... But in so doing, we have not only tamed and diminished heroes. We have risked taming and diminishing ourselves.

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I'm not good at explaining why I walked across Afghanistan.

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I had a lot of romantic notions about what it would mean to cross Asia by foot.

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When my father was posted to Malaysia, we'd take bacon-and-egg sandwiches in our backpacks and go hiking in the jungle or make bamboo rafts to sail down rivers.

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I want to 'normalise' myself. I would love to have a family.

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I have planted over 6,000 trees at home in Scotland, some of them oak. I'd like my children to be able to watch them grow.

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If things are going wrong in a country, it's not usually that we don't have enough foreigners. It's usually that we have too many.

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If we say the purpose of life is our children, that's neither a purpose nor a meaning. But I'm sure I will be as besotted as everybody else when I have them.

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Being a backbench MP is a bit of an anti-climax for a superhero.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Politician

Born: January 3rd, 1973

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