Don't Accept That You Are In Crisis

Paul Keating Told Us Before We Were Elected That You Can Do Deals With [rupert] Murdoch Without Saying You Were Doing A Deal. Did We Do That Kind Of Thing? Maybe. But From Around About The Turn Of The Century, I Felt Strongly That We Had To Do Something About Media Ownership And Self-regulation. Tony [blair] Disagreed.

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

The Day Of The Daredevil Reporter Who Refuses To See Obstacles To Getting The Truth, And Seeing It With His Or Her Own Eyes, Seems To Have Died.

I'm Certainly Driven, I Hate Losing, I Can Be Ruthless And Short-tempered And Terribly Competitive.

He [tony Blair] Was Always Ambivalent About The [rupert] Murdoch Papers. But He Gave Other Papers The Chance To Believe It Was Just About 'the Independent.' And That Was Wrong.