I don't know that Donald Trump is anything more to Putin than what Lenin called a poleznye durak, a useful idiot.

The internet is very democratizing in some ways, but it also has other effects.

A.J. Liebling, one of my heroes, used to say that he could write better than anyone who wrote faster, and faster than anyone who could write better. I'm one nine-hundredth as good as Liebling, but that principle may slightly apply.

We have to do our jobs better, more tirelessly and stop whining about it.

I got in journalism for any number of reasons, not least because it's so much fun. Journalism should be in the business of putting pressure on power, finding out the truth, of shining a light on injustice, of, when appropriate, being amusing and entertaining - it's a complicated and varied beast, journalism.

100% of the people who get the magazine say they read the cartoons first - and the other 2% are lying.100

Being an editor it's a complicated job, but the last impression I'd want anybody to have is that it's onerous. It's a joy - a complicated joy, but a joy.