Your great but critical sympathy from Tolstoy makes it always facinating to listen to. Looking forward to more in print in the future. Tolstoy has much to teach our current times.

A very interesting subject, but a particularly unimaginative guest. I found your questions more insightful than the answers. As regards anarchism, as George Monbiot recently wrote in an article, “when the anarchist utopia arrives, the first thing that will happen is that every Daily Mail [a xenophobic rightwing UK tabloid] reader in the country will pick up a gun and go and kill the nearest hippy.”