I get paid to do what I enjoy, not that common a condition.

I get paid to do what I enjoy, not that common a condition.

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.

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

My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman, hadn't gone to university but should have done. Was very funny, very verbal, very clever, very witty.

I've got a very peculiar sort of fame, based on being on the telly. It doesn't mean you have the lifestyle people expect.

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