If you go back, 'The Great Gatsby' would be a portrait of the rich and fortune made by business.

Tape is the archiving champ and has been for decades. Reliable, less expensive than disks and available in large-scale robotic systems that store petabytes.

Egyptologists, skilled in piecing together the papyri of lost civilisations, suddenly discovered that the same talent could be applied to working out the pattern of German radio traffic.

The financial world is at the cutting edge of high technology.

My literary career was a fluke. Utterly unexpected.

In a way I'm almost more rueful about the notion of having a non-ideological Labour party than I am about the personality of Tony Blair.

Don't try to write too much in a single session. One thousand words a day is quite enough. Stop after about four or five hours.