Journalism is often simply the industrialisation of gossip.

The only time I penetrated Tony Blair's defenses over Iraq was by keeping eye contact while telling him he never seemed to by sorry

My big toe alone is the size of Yorkshire.

Journalism is often simply the industrialisation of gossip.

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.

One aspect of politics too little acknowledged is that besides being jolly serious and all that, it is also a hugely enjoyable game for boys.

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