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.
From Robert Harris
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.
I was a political journalist; I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power.
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.
Orwell has always been a huge influence on me.
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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