The citizen is becoming a pawn in a game where nobody knows the rules, where everybody consequently doubts that there are rules at all, and where the vocabulary has been diminished to such an extent that nobody is even sure what the game is all about.
And humility in politics means accepting that one party doesn't have all the answers; recognising that working in partnership is progress not treachery.
James Caan told me at the end of filming 'Elf' that he had been waiting through the whole film for me to be funny - and I never was.

