Hard news really is hard. It sticks not in the craw but in the mind. It has an almost physical effect, causing fear, interest, laughter or shock.

Androgynous fashion, long hair, the Pill, a new interest in the inner psychological life - an unabashed sloppiness, if you will - really marks the sixties. It was when Britain went girlie. And what do girls do? Girls shop.

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

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

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

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