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.'

I would have been a disastrous soldier.

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

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.

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