Modest about our national pride - and inordinately proud of our national modesty.

England Their England by AG Macdonell which was written in the thirties and is about a young Scotsman who's got shell shocked during the First World War… I love it.

You have a huge amount of confidence when you're younger, which slowly ebbs away for the rest of your life. You think: 'No problem. I can do that. Why shouldn't I do it?'

No, there are no hard and fast rules about sources, no printed booklet to help journalists through.

Internet journalism is not a world we know very well at all. It's conducted more on the screen and less in bars, which makes it rather less useful for getting stories about people throwing up over one another, which is what one's after.

The best comedy is where you attack the strong, not the weak.

I've seen the Pokémon movie, which is probably the worst movie ever made on any subject ever.