I have been reading the press more regularly than others over 50 years and it seems to me that there are things that have changed in the press that have changed its character.

If you look at things that really affect people's lives - sport, the arts, charities - they were always at the back of the queue for government money - health, social security, defence, pensions were all way ahead. And each of those areas - sports, the arts, the lottery - got relatively petty cash from the government.

Recovery begins from the darkest moment.

I don't think nations can stand aside for ethnic cleansing and genocide.

Certainly we've seen the enormous changes across the whole of the Middle East. The democratic genie is out of the bottle.

Some people eat eggs, I wear them.

You cannot think of Margaret without Denis. There comes a time when every Prime Minister needs someone to give him or her the unvarnished truth, and, in Denis, Margaret had just that.