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.

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

One in four of us will have a mental illness at some point. That is a lot of people.

He [Tony Blair] was always ambivalent about the [Rupert] Murdoch papers. But he gave other papers the chance to believe it was just about 'The Independent.' And that was wrong.

Jeremy, are we going to play your games?

I'm certainly driven, I hate losing, I can be ruthless and short-tempered and terribly competitive.

Like most meaningful activities, campaigns are team games.