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Muslims are not our enemy.
I get nervous if the bath is too deep.
When you have variety, you have freedom.
I am a better journalist than I am a businessman.
Every house has to have rules - even 'Animal House.'
The Sunday paper is an odd British cultural tradition.
I've got a house that's only 45 minutes from Monte Carlo.
Newspapers are what matter in this country, not magazines.
I always wanted to have a career in print and as a broadcaster.
With growing economic prowess comes, of course, military power.
Sometimes, I think 'The Spectator' is calculated to embarrass me.
You have to live and breathe Scotland if you're 'Scotsman' editor.
My mentor is Alastair Burnet, the greatest news anchor Britain has had.
There's even less to do in Umea at Christmas than there is in Stockholm.
Memo to self: never again try to travel by train in Britain on a Sunday.
I would not rule out Rupert Murdoch once again having control of 'Sky News.'
Now, I bow to nobody when it comes to estimating the influence of 'This Week.'
I never set out to get married and the way things have worked out I never have.
You know, Rupert Murdoch I've said is like an Italian when it comes to negotiations.
Not all Republicans in the class of 2010 owe their seats to the Tea Party. But many do.
I am not an insider - definitely not... but I don't think you could call me an outsider.
Donald Trump's grip on the Republican parties stronger than ever post the Mueller report.
Many U.S. Sunday papers are monopolies, and their contents can be an extension of the daily.
My favourite sport's cricket and one of the key things in cricket is to know when to declare.
Britain is now living with the consequences of allowing an underclass to take root and fester.
When I was growing up the obvious antisemites were the knuckle-draggers in the National Front.
The sucking sound of capital being pulled out of Europe and into East Asia is almost deafening.
Well, one person whose company I enjoy is Charlie Whelan. He and I get on really well together.
I read more bloggers now than mainstream columnists, because they've got more interesting things to say.
With each step away from communist constructivism to Hayekian capitalism, China has been richly rewarded.
In the highly unlikely event that the 'Telegraph' was to be sold again, then 'The Spectator' doesn't go with it.
With sad, depressing predictability, the children of today's underclass become tomorrow's criminals and dropouts.
Journalists always want publishers or editors to leave. They're creative troublemakers - that's why you hire them.
This is the only country in the world where you can be criticised for trying too hard. That's a put-down in London.
If I had a pound for every former editor who hadn't cut the mustard advising me what to do, I'd be a very rich man.
WMR is wholly devoted to acquiring and exploiting rights. We're not a production company, and we're not a broadcaster.
No-one in their right mind would buy the 'New Statesman' and change it from being a left-wing to a right-wing magazine.
On the far left, just as there is on the far right there is a dislike of Israel, not just a dislike, a hatred of Israel.
Britain's great postwar meritocratic experiment was broad-based, but it was in politics that the change was most dramatic.
It's probably the journalist in me, but I'm naturally suspicious about consensus and always feel an impulse to confront it.
People know more about my views than they do about most BBC presenters because I had a life before becoming a BBC presenter.
Class and the snobbery it provokes still matter far too much in Britain, but we are a far more mobile society than we used to be.
The Spectator' has to be managed and people have to report. We all have bosses in this world and that's true of 'The Spectator' too.
Since the Holocaust, anti-Semitism is no longer respectable. It was in the 1920s and '30s, but the Holocaust obviously changed that.
As one of the grammar-school generation, I grew up as part of a postwar meritocracy that steadily infiltrated the citadels of power.
I don't say for a moment that the far right is no longer a problem. We have seen the neo-Nazi nutters in Charlottesville in America.
The only exception to the demise/struggles of the European centre-left is Macron, in French presidential and parliamentary elections 2017.
I do not regret working with Rupert Murdoch. But there is a nasty undertone to a lot of what he does which does not exist with the Barclays.
No, you see, unlike some interviewers, I love politics... overall I am not anti-politicians at all. I recognise they are more important than me.
That's the only time when newspapers have some influence, when they are pushing the British public in a direction they are already minded to go.