He decries plebiscites as "a fraud against democracy".
He decries the subsequent "campaign of vilification" against Miliband.
He decries Spain's political culture, wedged between a centrist right and nationalists who cannot accept the pluralist reality of Spain.
He decries the ideology of "transparency," reminding us that no human relationship can survive without innuendo, mystery, even lying.
He decries the modern trend of "banishing the state from the public sphere for the benefit of big business".
He decries "the modern cult of papal veneration" perpetuated by the Vatican's publicity machine and the pope's own writings.
He decries the simple narrative in which Polish patriots are paragons of virtue, and their Bolshevik persecutors the epitome of evil.
He decries an endemic "culture of irresponsibility", and adds: "The trouble with Britain today is that our leadership lacks the audacity to be disliked.
He decries producers who allow their grapes to shrivel on the vine and become overly concentrated, and then try to pull too much out of the grapes in the winery — "extraction, that ugly word," he calls it.
He decries what he calls the "domination of Zionists" in Western societies and the overemphasis on the horrors of the Holocaust to the exclusion of other crimes, like slavery and racism.
He decries an economy in which 95% of the gains of the recovery have flowed to the richest 1% of households, and in which social mobility has stagnated even as inequality has widened.
