It is always disarming to treat with the enemy, so to speak.

Kids' views are often just as valid as the teachers'. The best teachers are the ones that know that.

Some people, you have to grit your teeth in order to stay in the same room as them, but you get on and ask the questions you assume most of the people watching want to ask.

Killing is the payoff of war.

I would trust citizen journalism as much as I would trust citizen surgery.

BBC Radio is not so much an art or industry as it is a way of life . . . a mirror that reflects . . . the eccentricities, the looniness that make Britons slightly different from other humans.

It is always disarming to treat with the enemy, so to speak.