Britain's great postwar meritocratic experiment was broad-based, but it was in politics that the change was most dramatic.
The Business' has been an editorial success, with a core audience that loves it. But commercially it has never been a success as a newspaper. It just gets crowded out on a Sunday.
When you have variety, you have freedom.
I don't even read 'the Sun' and it's my job to read everything that's politically important. I think that's a symbol of the declining power of the mainstream media.
I read more bloggers now than mainstream columnists, because they've got more interesting things to say.
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.
Every house has to have rules - even 'Animal House.'
Sometimes, I think 'The Spectator' is calculated to embarrass me.
I am a better journalist than I am a businessman.
My mentor is Alastair Burnet, the greatest news anchor Britain has had.
I always wanted to have a career in print and as a broadcaster.
The only exception to the demise/struggles of the European centre-left is Macron, in French presidential and parliamentary elections 2017.
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.
I made it clear when the Barclays took over the 'Telegraph' that I wanted no editorial position there. There is no way I could take a high-level editorial position at the papers. I have my work for the BBC, and that would be compromised if I did.
Ever since I left the 'Sunday Times' there has been a group of scribes waiting for me to fall on my face, and having a go at my commercial record, looking to pick holes in it.
Well, we all make mistakes, and I've made some; getting involved in a price-cutting campaign in Scotland when the biggest slump in advertising history was just around the corner was a mistake.
I'm proud to have played a major part in destroying Fleet Street, a corrupt cartel of unions and proprietors that operated against the public interest.
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.
I am not an insider - definitely not... but I don't think you could call me an outsider.
Newspapers are what matter in this country, not magazines.
