Eddie Izzard
We have to head towards a world in which everyone has a fair chance in life. So, if I was in the position of ruling the world, I would try and ensure that everyone has that fair chance. It should be the right of every citizen of the world to have the chance of a job, bring up a family, have democracy, have human rights. That should be the right of every citizen—all 7 billion of us. Only the extreme right would disagree, but that doesn’t make it easy to do.
Let’s take the democracy bit first. It of course needs to be built into every country. Some people increasingly seem to pit democracy against stability. So they will vote for more stability and less democracy, which is unfortunate. Then there is Donald Trump’s “alternative facts” thing that he’s coming up with, the hateful things that are said from his administration or his Twitter account. This is happening right now in front of us. You know we thought that we went through this in the 1930s, so we shouldn’t be back to this.