“What a squalid and irresponsible little profession it is. Nothing prepares you for how bad Fleet Street really is until it craps on you from a great height.”
“But when reporters say to me I'm only doing this because it's my job... that's the same abdication of moral responsibility at the thin end of the wedge that in its most extreme and horrific version ends up with others being prepared to stand as a concentration camp guard.”
“Here is a radical and reforming commissioner making major changes to the police who has many enemies in there, who really don't want to see those changes,”
“Texas playing Tower Bridge will be a combination of the modern and the best of the old that reflects the breadth of what London stands for. I am very pleased to give my backing to this unique event Virgin Radio and Texas are putting on.”
“We believe that the fight against terrorism requires a broad consensus around its means and the involvement of all communities to isolate and defeat those who would use terror to divide us,”
“It is important now for Blair to accept that foreign policy is a serious concern and to start to do something about it rather than being seen to brush it aside. ... must be directed against those carrying out, planning or supporting such terrorist attacks and not against those who are our allies in dealing with the terrorists.”
