The greenhouse effect of carbon-dioxide emissions does produce gentle warming if it is not counteracted by unpredictable natural phenomena, but it cannot be measured directly against the volume of such emissions.

Although his personality is generally quite agreeable, Mr Murdoch has no loyalty to anyone or anything except his company.

I am a passport-carrying citizen of the E.U.

Rupert Murdoch is probably the most successful media proprietor and operator in history.

Maximising my wealth was never my chief thing.

I have long thought that his [Rupert Murdoch's] social philosophy was contained in his cartoon show, The Simpsons: all politicians and public officials are crooks, and the masses are a vast lumpen proletariat of deluded and exploitable blowhards.

The balance between faith and reason is for the determination of each individual, and of the people as a whole, not of unauthorized government officials uttering impious humbug as they arbitrarily try to define that balance.