My big toe alone is the size of Yorkshire.

Journalism is nine-tenths being in the right places at the right time.

Rude interviewers are ten a penny, and politicians have long since learned how to cope.

History is either a moral argument with lessons for the here-and-now, or it is merely an accumulation of pointless facts.

My big toe alone is the size of Yorkshire.

The business of funding digging journalists is important to encourage. It cannot be replaced by bloggers who don't have access to politicians, who don't have easy access to official documents, who aren't able to buttonhole people in power.

The British happened to the rest of the world. Now the world happens to Britain.