You know, Rupert Murdoch I've said is like an Italian when it comes to negotiations.
WMR is wholly devoted to acquiring and exploiting rights. We're not a production company, and we're not a broadcaster.
Donald Trump's grip on the Republican parties stronger than ever post the Mueller report.
I don't think the standard of our politicians is very high. And when you get good ones, world-class ones, like a Blair or a Brown or a Thatcher, then they do stand out - they are head and shoulders above everybody else.
I'm a bit of a loner.
This is the only country in the world where you can be criticised for trying too hard. That's a put-down in London.
There's even less to do in Umea at Christmas than there is in Stockholm.
Those who claim to be in the know say Baros is nothing out of the ordinary as Maldivian islands go - that Reethi Ra is far more fashionable, Soneva Fushi more eco-compliant. Truth to tell, they all look pretty much alike from a distance.
I get nervous if the bath is too deep.
As one of the grammar-school generation, I grew up as part of a postwar meritocracy that steadily infiltrated the citadels of power.
When I was at Paisley Grammar we were equipped to compete with the private-school kids - and encouraged to do so. The sky was the limit, provided we had ability, ambition and a capacity for hard work.
It's probably the journalist in me, but I'm naturally suspicious about consensus and always feel an impulse to confront it.
Not all Republicans in the class of 2010 owe their seats to the Tea Party. But many do.
The Tea Party isn't out to be a third force in American politics. Instead, it has infiltrated the Republicans and remoulded them in its own image.
I travelled through the night in a bus with the Kentucky Tea Party en route to a massive rally in Washington. For the most part I found them decent, self-reliant, regular Americans who feared the American Dream was now over, not just for them but for their children and grandchildren.
Like all populist movements, the Tea Party will eventually peter out. It won't succeed in returning America to the minimalist state of the 19th century.
I recently passed through Mumbai airport. I cannot claim it was a pleasant experience. But if I had a choice between Mumbai airport and Euston on a Sunday afternoon, I'd take Mumbai any day.
During the Blair-Brown decade social concerns - what kind of society we have become - have gradually replaced economic worries. People fear that we have become an increasingly fragmented, boorish, more violent society.
Britain is now living with the consequences of allowing an underclass to take root and fester.
With sad, depressing predictability, the children of today's underclass become tomorrow's criminals and dropouts.
