People who get on at school are the ones who play by the rules, and no one's going to get far in later life playing by the system.

Lots of us when we're children believe 'oh well, if the world knew us as we really are, they'd know what wonderful, clever, brilliant, charming people we really are.'

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

The only redemptive feature of war is the brotherhood which it forges.

It's miraculous how much easier the computer has made my sort of work.

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.

As George Orwell wisely observed a generation later, the only way swiftly to end a war is to lose it.