It is almost impossible to say the name of Thai prime minister Yingluck Shinawat without adding 'give a dog a bone'

People may say that what I do is very clever, but it's not really at all. It's not Swift.

That business aspect of the media, that Charlotte Street world, the advertising and programme executives, it leaves me absolutely cold. I'm supposed to be the director of a television company, but I've only ever seen that company as a vehicle for making the kind of programmes we wanted to make, getting our ideas on the screen.

It is almost impossible to say the name of Thai prime minister Yingluck Shinawat without adding 'give a dog a bone'

Tony Blair has always said he will be judged by history. Now Alastair Campbell is history we await his judgment.

It is a weird thing, because most people tend to get more conservative as they get older, but I find myself going the opposite way. I am sure that by the end I will be selling Marxist pamphlets on the Holloway Road.

I'm much more used to the TV shows, which are demanding to write and perform but very fulfilling.