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.'

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.

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

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.

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

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.'

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