In 2018 Magee, who was then living in one room in a nursing hospital in Oxford, was interviewed by Jason Cowley of "New Statesman" and discussed his life and his 2016 book "Ultimate Questions". Magee said that he believed he lacked originality and, until "Ultimate Questions", had struggled to make an original contribution to philosophy, saying: Popper had this originality, Russell had it, and Einstein had it in spades. Einstein created a way of seeing things which transformed the way we see the world and the way we even understand such fundamental things as time and space. And I fundamentally understand that I could never do that, never. I wish I was in that class – not because I want to be a clever chap but because I want to do things that are at a much better level than I've done them. He explained that he followed the news and politics closely and that he considered the vote for Brexit to have been a "historic mistake".