All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.

There's an awful lot of terrible television which I could do, but I mostly stick to Have I Got News for You.

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.

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.

All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.

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

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