Occupation: Journalist Birth: May 25, 1957 Death: August 27, 1697
I never met David Kelly, but I knew from what he told other people that this was not his view. The BBC were saying that Tony Blair was making up lies….
Greg Dyke is on record as saying that once the BBC was attacked, it was their job to defend themselves. But that is not their job..
Paul Keating told us before we were elected that you can do deals with [Rupert] Murdoch without saying you were doing a deal. Did we do that kind of ….
In an ideal world, it would not take a film star to get the media focused on mental illness..
My dad, Donald, was a vet and had a practice in Yorkshire. Cats and dogs were his bread and butter, but his greatest love was large animals..
Like most meaningful activities, campaigns are team games..
I remember talking to Alex Ferguson about Tony [Blair] and Gordon [Brown], and he said: "Why doesn't Tony just get rid of him?" But if you sack someo….
This may sound arrogant, but I believe that if we'd done teamship better, we'd still be there. Where we fell down was the inability to hold together.….
One day, we will look back and wonder how on earth we used to believe that depression was a lifestyle choice, only to be debated and taken seriously ….
I'm certainly driven, I hate losing, I can be ruthless and short-tempered and terribly competitive..
There are many reasons for the decline in royal esteem. One is that so many of the royals are thick..
One in four of us will have a mental illness at some point. That is a lot of people..
The media are obsessed with spin doctors and with portraying them as a bad thing, yet seem addicted to our medicine..
For all that the papers would say I was a liar, I took the words I was saying at briefings as seriously as Tony Blair took what he would say at the D….
We should confine booing in sports arenas to sport. I love a good boo as much as the next football fan..
The junk food of political journalism...all reshuffle stories are crap..
I want to write more books, see my first novel made into a film, fight more campaigns, work in more countries. I want to be able to recall experience….
May I share with you my earliest memory of a political row? It was with my mother, about the Queen - classic Freudian stuff, shrinks would say. I was….
The bad news for journalists today is that the media, however seriously people who are in the public eye take it, is not taken as seriously as it onc….
The thing about politicians in Britain is that they are out there, you can lobby them, get close to them, there are loads of ways you can protest aga….
Don't accept that you are in crisis just because everyone says you are..