I Have Always Been Driven. I Have

I Never Met David Kelly, But I Knew From What He Told Other People That This Was Not His View. The Bbc Were Saying That Tony Blair Was Making Up Lies So That He Could Send Young Men And Women To War, Maybe To Die. I Think That If The Bbc Had Done Their Jobs Professionally, They'd Have Realised That You Couldn't Justify What They Said. And Nothing Has Emerged Since To Justify That Report.

All Of This Is Happening Because There Has Still Been No Reckoning Post The Financial Crisis. So Governments Have Fallen, One Bloke Has Been To Prison, The Banks Have Gone Pretty Well Back To Status Quo, The Rich Are Getting Richer, And The Poor Are Getting Poorer. And It's Fuelling Anger. And Somehow [donald] Trump, Who Represents The Worst Aspects Of Capitalism, Has Persuaded People He Can Deal With That.

I Feel Like Thanking Paul Dacre Every Time, Because The Reason They Ask Me Is Because They Think I've Come Through The Other End With A Pretty Good Reputation. Loads Of People Get A Bad Press But Have A Good Reputation. [david] Beckham - Think What He Went Through. [bill] Clinton, Likewise. You Just Have To Be True To Yourself.

My Public Caricature - That Of A Self-confident Alpha Male - Is Only Partly Accurate.

May I Share With You My Earliest Memory Of A Political Row? It Was With My Mother, About The Queen - Classic Freudian Stuff, Shrinks Would Say. I Was Eight, And Refusing To Watch The Queen's Christmas Day Broadcast.