The bad news for journalists today is that the media, however seriously people who are in the public eye take it, is not taken as seriously as it once was - by the public.

By asking the question 'Am I happy?,' and via the answer setting out what I mean by happiness, there is a political route that can be taken, by asking another question - 'Can politics deliver happiness, and should it try?'

I have always been driven. I have always believed in what I believe very deeply.

Tony's [Blair] convinced I'm going to find God. I do have spiritual moments, but I don't think it's God.

Don't accept that you are in crisis just because everyone says you are.

There are many reasons for the decline in royal esteem. One is that so many of the royals are thick.

I remember talking to Alex Ferguson about Tony [Blair] and Gordon [Brown], and he said: "Why doesn't Tony just get rid of him?" But if you sack someone in football, they can't turn up to training the next day. In politics they're still on the pitch. Gordon would still have been a big player.