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There's Always These Giant Baffling Books, Like 'the Da Vinci Code.' People Say It's Not As Well Written As 'midnight's Children.' Why Aren't People Reading 'midnight's Children?' Nobody Knows Why These Phenomenons Happen But They're Great.

I'm Always Represented As A Bit Of A Class Warrior - A Bit Down With Men And Down With Middle-class People. Whereas I'm Actually Very Fond Of Men And Am Middle-class. I Even Went To Boarding School In Perthshire.

We Don't Really Go In For Big Family Dinners, But Scottish People Are Famously Confrontational. It's A Cultural Thing, So Maybe We Don't Need To Have Them To Clear The Air. Also, Traditional Family Food Isn't As Nice Here So There's No Payoff For Traveling Hundreds Of Miles.

To Have A Very Strong Opinion All The Time Is Corrosive To A Person's Intellect. It Becomes Your Default Position.

Journalism Is A Darwinian Process.