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

I've always found women more loyal, more disciplined, less neurotic, more hardworking. I just think they're perfect colleagues. Whereas, God knows, I've dealt with plenty of neurotic men.

You cannot write down how people are good; you just know it, and cannot get away from it.

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

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.

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