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The Queen is by much the most powerful of the forces.

I quite like the Queen. Now, this must come as a fairly amazing statement for someone who is avowedly left wing, pro-independence and anti-monarchy, but there you go.

Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.

The queen and I always got on well, still do; I uphold everything Her Majesty represents, has given up her life for. It's her duty. For her country, she's selfless to the grave.

I've nothing against the Queen personally. I had lunch at the Palace once upon a time.

Dictators are interesting, no?

I'm a benevolent dictator.

Dictators are ludicrous characters, and, you know, in my career and in my life, I've always enjoyed sort of inhabiting these ludicrous, larger-than-life characters that somehow exist in the real world.

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.