The problem with Bush is that yes, he's religious in a fundamentalist sort of way, they read the Old Testament as a sort of charter for the chosen people to do what they like.

In this awful mess of Baghdad thank God there is one bright light anyway.

If we are really anxious not to have nuclear weapons in Iran, the first thing is to call an international conference on abolishing all nuclear weapons, including Israeli nuclear weapons.

We know the people who have got them are still trying to get some negotiating position from them and they haven't put a deadline. I am hopeful.

They have done negotiations but never with abolition in mind in fact we are making more nuclear weapons here, the Americans, the Russians, the French, the Chinese are probably the same.

I mean the Americans in a funny way see themselves as an ongoing chosen race - it was the Jews and now it's the great American dream.