I want to set up a new standard: ‘scientific journalism.’ If you publish a paper on DNA, you are required, by all the good biological journals, to submit the data that has informed your research—the idea being that people will replicate it, check it, verify it. So this is something that needs to be done for journalism as well. There is an immediate power imbalance, in that readers are unable to verify what they are being told, and that leads to abuse.

Dont shoot the messenger for revealing uncomfortable truths.

In my situation, frankly, I'm a bit institutionalised - this [the embassy] is the world .. it's visually the world [for me].

So when Putin goes out to buy a Coke, thirty seconds later it is known in Washington DC.

If you want a vision of the future, imagine Washington-back ed Google Glasses strapped onto vacant human faces - forever.

If you look at the history of the FBI, it has become effectively America's political police.

I am an Australian citizen, and I miss my country a great deal.