Quotes

There are plenty of very stupid women at the BBC.

When King (Jonathan King) was sentenced to seven years in prison for sex crimes I wrote to him sympathising with the harshness of the tariff and the unfairness of the court case, but added that I thought he deserved at least seven years for 'Una Paloma Blanca'. I got a remarkably cheerful letter back from his cell which vaguely agreed on the last point.

Gary Glitter, from what little I know of him, strikes me as a thick and unpleasant monkey. But they shouldn't cut his songs on grounds of his later behaviour. Even if they are truly fucking awful.

Islam is masochistic, homophobic and a totalitarian regime. It is a fascistic, bigoted and medieval religion.

[on BBC coverage of the death of Nelson Mandela] For Christ's sake BBC, give it a bloody break for five minutes, will you? It's as if the poor bugger now has to bear your entire self-flagellating white post-colonial bien pensant guilt; look! Famous nice black man dies! Let's re-run the entire history of South Africa. That's better than watching the country we're in being flattened by a storm.

[The "Silver Ring Thing" is] deeply counterproductive to preventing teen pregnancies and preventing the transmission of sexually transmitted diseases.

[Silver Ring Thing] What happens if someone wearing the Ring gives in and has sex? [We'd ask them to take the Ring off] Wha-ha?

I wanted to look at some pictures of child pornography from the internet this week and then tell you all about them, but I couldn't because my stupid modem broke down.

The one thing stopping me from being a teacher was that I could not remotely conceive of not trying to shag the kids. It seemed to me virtually impossible not to, and I was convinced that I'd be right in there, on day one.

The overwhelming majority of street crime, knife crime, gun crime, robbery and crimes of sexual violence in London is carried out by young men from the African-Caribbean community.