Journalism is a Darwinian process.

Journalism is a Darwinian process.

People are interested in crime fiction when they're quite distanced from crime. People in Darfur are not reading murder mysteries.

To have a very strong opinion all the time is corrosive to a person's intellect. It becomes your default position.

I'm terrified to get married. I'm not getting married till my gay friends can.

I'm always represented as a bit of a class warrior - a bit Down With Men and Down With Middle-Class People. Whereas I'm actually very fond of men and am middle-class. I even went to boarding school in Perthshire.

Novelisation doesn't imply the truth. Readers are sophisticated enough to know that.