There was no doubt that in the early and mid-eighties that many of us in broadsheet newspapers felt that we still had a responsibility to try to protect the Royal Family or if you like protect the Monarchy from the assaults of the media.

If you can't get a job as a pianist in a brothel, you become a royal reporter.

A Tory government with a decent mandate seems the only hope of tackling the fiscal catastrophe responsibly.

There was no doubt that in the early and mid-eighties that many of us in broadsheet newspapers felt that we still had a responsibility to try to protect the Royal Family or if you like protect the Monarchy from the assaults of the media.

When I am fishing, I think quite a lot about the fish, but I also think about the book I'm writing.

I'm a wet liberal really, and always have been. But I'm sort of an aggressive wet liberal.

I would have been a disastrous soldier.