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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Devoted
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- Nov 07, 2020
WMR is wholly devoted to acquiring and exploiting rights. We're not a production company, and we're not a broadcaster.
- Nov 07, 2020
Donald Trump's grip on the Republican parties stronger than ever post the Mueller report.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've got a house that's only 45 minutes from Monte Carlo.
- Loner
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a bit of a loner.
- Nov 07, 2020
This is the only country in the world where you can be criticised for trying too hard. That's a put-down in London.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Those who claim to be in the know say Baros is nothing out of the ordinary as Maldivian islands go - that Reethi Ra is far more fashionable, Soneva Fushi more eco-compliant. Truth to tell, they all look pretty much alike from a distance.
- Group
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're on the pull, a hen party gaggle, a gang of rowdy chavs or a group of braying snotty bottys, then Baros is not for you - which means it's just grand for the rest of us.
- Deep
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get nervous if the bath is too deep.
- Part
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- Nov 07, 2020
As one of the grammar-school generation, I grew up as part of a postwar meritocracy that steadily infiltrated the citadels of power.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Britain's great postwar meritocratic experiment was broad-based, but it was in politics that the change was most dramatic.
- Hard Work
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was at Paisley Grammar we were equipped to compete with the private-school kids - and encouraged to do so. The sky was the limit, provided we had ability, ambition and a capacity for hard work.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's probably the journalist in me, but I'm naturally suspicious about consensus and always feel an impulse to confront it.
- Owe
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not all Republicans in the class of 2010 owe their seats to the Tea Party. But many do.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Tea Party isn't out to be a third force in American politics. Instead, it has infiltrated the Republicans and remoulded them in its own image.
- Commercially
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Business' has been an editorial success, with a core audience that loves it. But commercially it has never been a success as a newspaper. It just gets crowded out on a Sunday.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whereas people increasingly get their news from the Internet, magazines have a different atmospheric to them. A magazine is something you sit down and relax with.
- Nov 07, 2020
When you have variety, you have freedom.
- Key
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- Nov 07, 2020
My favourite sport's cricket and one of the key things in cricket is to know when to declare.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't even read 'the Sun' and it's my job to read everything that's politically important. I think that's a symbol of the declining power of the mainstream media.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I read more bloggers now than mainstream columnists, because they've got more interesting things to say.
- Every
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every house has to have rules - even 'Animal House.'
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the highly unlikely event that the 'Telegraph' was to be sold again, then 'The Spectator' doesn't go with it.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
No-one in their right mind would buy the 'New Statesman' and change it from being a left-wing to a right-wing magazine.
- Businessman
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a better journalist than I am a businessman.
- French
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only exception to the demise/struggles of the European centre-left is Macron, in French presidential and parliamentary elections 2017.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I had a pound for every former editor who hadn't cut the mustard advising me what to do, I'd be a very rich man.
- Over
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- Nov 07, 2020
I made it clear when the Barclays took over the 'Telegraph' that I wanted no editorial position there. There is no way I could take a high-level editorial position at the papers. I have my work for the BBC, and that would be compromised if I did.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ever since I left the 'Sunday Times' there has been a group of scribes waiting for me to fall on my face, and having a go at my commercial record, looking to pick holes in it.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, we all make mistakes, and I've made some; getting involved in a price-cutting campaign in Scotland when the biggest slump in advertising history was just around the corner was a mistake.
- Creative
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- Nov 07, 2020
Journalists always want publishers or editors to leave. They're creative troublemakers - that's why you hire them.
- Interest
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm proud to have played a major part in destroying Fleet Street, a corrupt cartel of unions and proprietors that operated against the public interest.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
No, you see, unlike some interviewers, I love politics... overall I am not anti-politicians at all. I recognise they are more important than me.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not an insider - definitely not... but I don't think you could call me an outsider.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a substantial difference between dumping 100 copies of the 'Telegraph' at a Connex South Central station and giving away copies of the 'Business' with the 'Mail on Sunday.' 'This kind of circulation is valuable and enhances the brand. Leaving them anywhere willy-nilly devalues the brand.
- Harold
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is actually getting much harder for someone from an ordinary background to break through the ranks. In the period from 1964 to 1997, every single Prime Minister - from Harold Wilson to John Major - was the product of a state school.
- Grammar School
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Margaret Thatchers of this country made it through - like I did - because of the grammar school system, which gave the opportunity of a lifetime to working-class kids. It put them on a level playing field with the privately educated kids, and opened up the top universities to them.
- Giving
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not arguing for a return to the grammar school system, but there must be a way of identifying bright kids from ordinary backgrounds and giving them a world-class education.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are two ways you can buy an education in this country. You can pay the fees. Or you can cheat and buy a house in an area where there's a good school.
- New York
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spend a lot of time in New York.
- Nov 07, 2020
The Scotsman' is a cheerleader for devolution.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
The old Establishment has always preserved its position by not being too exclusive - it has been wily enough to absorb the up-and-coming and convert them to their attitudes and mannerisms.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Class and the snobbery it provokes still matter far too much in Britain, but we are a far more mobile society than we used to be.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
When one English person speaks, another one immediately classifies him. No class system in the world is so audible, which is also why it is so pernicious and enduring.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the traditional British elite had made a great success of running my country, as successful, say, as the elites of Germany, Japan and America, then maybe it would be a club worth joining.
- Boring
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- Nov 07, 2020
Americans have this patrician attitude that they have a God-given right to produce these boring newspapers and not be challenged to do it. 'The New York Times' really thinks it's the BBC.
- Many
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many U.S. Sunday papers are monopolies, and their contents can be an extension of the daily.
- Paper
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Sunday paper is an odd British cultural tradition.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
If 'Spectator Business' works, we will continue this brand extension strategy and look at everything from 'Spectator Arts' to 'Spectator Style and Travel' or 'Spectator Connoisseur.'
- Effort
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- Nov 07, 2020
You don't really appreciate how much you are going to miss your parents. I keep thinking of all the times I should have made the effort to go up and see them but didn't.
- Fall
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't fall in love easily... But I do fall in love.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I even remember at the age of five watching a documentary on the Ku Klux Klan that was quite terrifying because it was men in white sheets who looked like ghosts to me.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
People know more about my views than they do about most BBC presenters because I had a life before becoming a BBC presenter.
- Enjoy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, one person whose company I enjoy is Charlie Whelan. He and I get on really well together.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's the only time when newspapers have some influence, when they are pushing the British public in a direction they are already minded to go.
- Independent
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- Nov 07, 2020