Friends Have Suggested That I Am The

We Should Confine Booing In Sports Arenas To Sport. I Love A Good Boo As Much As The Next Football Fan.

Greg Dyke Is On Record As Saying That Once The Bbc Was Attacked, It Was Their Job To Defend Themselves. But That Is Not Their Job.

I Do Think It's Strange That I Get Associated With Iraq More Than The People Who Were Foreign Secretary Or Defence Secretary. It's Because Of My Closeness To Tony [blair], Which I Don't Regret At All. I Think That Was A Privilege.

Tony [blair] Slowly Sucked Me Back In For The 2005 Campaign, And From Six Months Out, I Was Basically Working Full Time Trying To Keep The Tony[blair] - Gordon[brown] Thing Together For The Campaign. It Was Awful.

My Closest Friend, Who Died Not Long Ago, Is Buried Near Marx's Grave In Highgate Cemetery, So I See The Gaggle Of Admirers Laying Roses At The Foot Of His Tombstone Regularly. I Have Never Been Tempted To Leave Flowers There Myself. Great Theories, Shame About The Practice. Marx Did Many Things. But Inventing Class Was Not One Of Them.