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

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

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.

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.

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.