In a highly competitive newspaper market, every editor needs to appeal to female readers to boost their circulation.

The quality of our journalism will make or break our industry, not the recession.

Sometimes I suspect most of the media commentariat are suffering from Munchausen syndrome.

I have never paid a policeman myself. I have never sanctioned, knowingly sanctioned, a payment to a police officer.

We have paid the police for information in the past.

It’s very difficult to trace convicted paedophiles

I was the editor of the News of the World; I was the editor of the Sun and chief executive.

Any affair, by its very nature, is quite dysfunctional.

Sometimes you can't walk your dream journey. Find a way!

What, after all, was the point of civilisation if not the well-being of citizens?

It was a fun job but I'd never claim Busted was anything other than a pop band.

The difference between hearsay and prophecy is often one of sequence. Hearsay often turns out to have been prophecy.

All values must be won by contest, and after they have been won, they must be defended.

I get obsessed with decorations and decorating the house. I keep it tasteful outside, but when you get inside it is a bit like Blackpool illuminations, I go bonkers!

If you're unhappy in a relationship, I think you just don't trust yourself for getting into another one.

Everybody has two swings: the one he uses during the last three holes of a tournament and the one he uses the rest of the time.