Quotes

Freedom of expression is always the first casualty when politicians are on a witch-hunt against the press.

So much of American media now is people shouting at each other.

[on Christians who suggested floods were caused by homosexual marriage] If gay people could change the weather, wouldn't that make them God's anointed people?

[to a UKIP Member of the European Parliament] Are you a political party or are you a Whitehall farce?

David Cameron has called on the BBC to stop using the term Islamic State, claiming that the group is neither Islamic nor a state. But how does he know? The prime minister's not a theologian or an expert on Islamic thought or text. Can you really isolate the group from its religious roots?

[Public Feedback: Don't stigmatize] Well, it's a complex issue.

This schizophrenic came up behind me at a bus shelter in the dark and ever since then I jump and turn around when I hear a noise.

Researchers claim that attractive people are more likely to be right-wing. This has come as a something of a surprise to those of us who've had to cover Tory Party conferences down the ages.

Manners maketh the man, so the proverb goes, and of course the woman, and naturally various states of gender in between, you can't be too careful these days, can you?

It says something about the febrile state of British politics that a state visit by Donald Trump gave us a couple of days of near normality.

[on Jimmy Savile] He said he had all these women chasing him, he had all these girlfriends, but our research team couldn't find a single woman, girl, teenager that he had dated. Not one. The only woman we could find that had played any part in his life had been his mother. And the more we looked at it, the more it seemed he had a rather unhealthy relationship with his mother.