It is almost impossible to say the name of Thai prime minister Yingluck Shinawat without adding 'give a dog a bone'

Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!

Politics now is rather like going into Starbucks for a coffee.

In a more intellectually rigorous age, I wouldn't be talked about as a satirist at all. I would just be a topical comedian.

When you consider what Tony Blair was saying about liberty, human rights and that sort of thing, it would be terribly revolutionary to sell the speeches he and Jack Straw made in 1994.

I had an Edinburgh, middle-class childhood and a public school education.

Now I'm instantly nervous about the demands of doing a weekly column.

I am just fascinated by this reassurance from a menacing figure. It is rather frightening.

Tony Blair has always said he will be judged by history. Now Alastair Campbell is history we await his judgment.

I used to do my Nelson Mandela voice to blag restaurant tables in Cape Town. It rarely worked. Now what a great city that is.

When George Bush finally leaves the White House, the satire industry will briefly join the rest of the economy in recession. It will certainly be the end of an era.

We are not bound by time. But there are things we cannot speak of because the repercussions of particular thoughts can break lives.

It is hard to take the last step, but the hardest thing is to make a choice between the unwillingness to live and the inability to die.

Free man is by necessity insecure thinking man by necessity uncertain.

To use a basketball metaphor, West Wing cast was a group that liked to pass as much as they liked to shoot.

When you got born again your past was not erased, it became non-existent.

Summer treads on heels of spring.

My father taught me to always do more than you get paid for as an investment in your future.

One could always do more, faster and cleverer, but democracy has its own rhythm.

Angry and frustrated, the journalists set about making bricks without straw.

I wasn't strong when I was young. The puck was maybe too heavy. I guess I tried to move the puck from side to side to keep from getting hit.