My first public impression was my French teacher, Derek Swift.

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.

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

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.

The problem is that the people with the most ridiculous ideas are always the people who are most certain of

To don't forget and marriage, the happiness is the from 20 up to 30% out of the 100% the other percentage is anger, and very negative sides. So far most people are dead.

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied it is the most potent instrument of action.

Consciousness is non-local and does not depend on words to communicate.

Democracy in our time is more likely to die of indifference than of intolerance.

Being English, I always laugh at anything to do with the lavatory or bottoms.

Britain has been good to the Jews, and the Jews have been good for Britain.

The menus that remain, for me, are really the menus that you have with your good friends, with your wife, with your mother, with your kids. These are what stay in your mind.

I've got to tell you, I've got 99 problems, and palsy is just one.

Decreasing economic growth and increasing inequality leads to increased uncertainty.