Journalism is often simply the industrialisation of gossip.
Rude interviewers are ten a penny, and politicians have long since learned how to cope.
Journalism is nine-tenths being in the right places at the right time.
The British happened to the rest of the world. Now the world happens to Britain.
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
History is either a moral argument with lessons for the here-and-now, or it is merely an accumulation of pointless facts.