Jim Ratcliffe

The Brits are perfectly capable of managing the Brits and don't need Brussels telling them how to manage things.

I'm not sure we could spell 'shale' in 2008.

Ineos is a friendly organisation. Very few people leave. It's collegiate. There's not much politics, and we like decent people. We don't like arrogance or bullies.

I don't write constantly; it's two serials and a novel a year.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

We may be so eager to protect the right to dissent that we lose sight of the difference between dissent and subversion.