The fundamental mystery of life is that we're all entitled to our own consciousness and there is all these things called other people, we're all different and I dislike prejudice against any particular group and I, and I, I hate, I hate it when I think people are being Islamophobic and they're you know they're missing the point and the point is to you know isolate the extremists and not to denigrate the religion and so on and so forth, I hate all that stuff.
A chap in the Evening Standard said I was a fat Albino, well I would like to know what he's got against Albinos.
You know talk about bigotry, he can bog off.
When people hate someone else for their, a culture they belong to or a country they come from, that feeling of hatred is never really about the other person, it is never about the other country or culture, it's really a feeling of anxiety about themselves, that's what's really going on in people's head, never forget that.
This whole Britishness business is very perplexing to me because not so long ago Esther Rantzen, wonderful Esther Ranzten was asked by the Daily Mail to identify the things that she associated with Britain.
And as far as I can remember she said it was me riding a bicycle which is very very peculiar when you consider that actually a lot of my ancestors come from all over the world, in particular I grew up thinking a lot about my Turkish great grandfather who was a very mysterious eccentric figure who was a home secretary, a home interior minister in the government of the last Sultan.
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