Scotland needs comedy more than ever. With the independence debate, finally after 300 years, reaching room temperature.

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.

How do you get all those coins?" asked Mort.IN PAIRS.

You're an infinite soul, a spark of Consciousness, and your perception is a creative decision you're continuously making.

Brighten your picture! Refuse to be blurred

To arms! to arms! ye brave! The avenging sword unsheathe March on! march on! all hearts resolved On victory or death!

Like writing, reading is a protest against the insufficiencies of life.

Do not limit the shape and size in which your miracle can come. Sometimes the smallest keys turn the biggest locks.

I'm all for typewriters, with instant carbon copies, and seeing films in cinemas.

So, I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.

Our whole goal is to drive the cost of taking an Uber BELOW the cost of owning a car.