The English are a tolerant bunch and, outside elements of the London elite, never much minded the rise of the Scottish Raj: after all, we were British, well-educated, reasonably cultivated and spoke with clear, classless accents.
— Andrew Neil
As class barriers tumbled and Britain became a more meritocratic society, young, well-educated Scots were best placed to exploit the new social mobility.
Muslims are not our enemy.
On the far left, just as there is on the far right there is a dislike of Israel, not just a dislike, a hatred of Israel.
I haven't got a family. I live to work.
The sucking sound of capital being pulled out of Europe and into East Asia is almost deafening.
Most children of the underclass are born out of wedlock; relationships are fleeting and unstable (which ensures that what is born into the underclass stays in the underclass). This is a world in which there are almost no worthwhile male role models, which is a disaster when boys turn to youths.
I recently passed through Mumbai airport. I cannot claim it was a pleasant experience. But if I had a choice between Mumbai airport and Euston on a Sunday afternoon, I'd take Mumbai any day.
I travelled through the night in a bus with the Kentucky Tea Party en route to a massive rally in Washington. For the most part I found them decent, self-reliant, regular Americans who feared the American Dream was now over, not just for them but for their children and grandchildren.
It's probably the journalist in me, but I'm naturally suspicious about consensus and always feel an impulse to confront it.
As one of the grammar-school generation, I grew up as part of a postwar meritocracy that steadily infiltrated the citadels of power.
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.
I'm a bit of a loner.
Donald Trump's grip on the Republican parties stronger than ever post the Mueller report.
You know, Rupert Murdoch I've said is like an Italian when it comes to negotiations.
Rupert Murdoch has been around since the dinosaurs. He knows how to get around any independent board - as he did with me, and as he's done with other editors as well.
People know more about my views than they do about most BBC presenters because I had a life before becoming a BBC presenter.
The English, in their ignorance, still have the romantic notion that Scottish schools are superior to English ones; they are at least a generation out of date.
Now, I bow to nobody when it comes to estimating the influence of 'This Week.'
I don't say for a moment that the far right is no longer a problem. We have seen the neo-Nazi nutters in Charlottesville in America.
When I was growing up the obvious antisemites were the knuckle-draggers in the National Front.
No one can be in any doubt that Britain is becoming more like Europe, though few in an increasingly economically illiterate media seem to realise it.
With each step away from communist constructivism to Hayekian capitalism, China has been richly rewarded.
Britain is now living with the consequences of allowing an underclass to take root and fester.
Memo to self: never again try to travel by train in Britain on a Sunday.
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.
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.
I get nervous if the bath is too deep.
There's even less to do in Umea at Christmas than there is in Stockholm.
I've got a house that's only 45 minutes from Monte Carlo.
WMR is wholly devoted to acquiring and exploiting rights. We're not a production company, and we're not a broadcaster.
The Sun' and the 'News of the World' fell in line behind New Labour in the run up to the 1997 election, 'The Times' stayed broadly neutral and 'The Sunday Times' unenthusiastically Tory. After the election, 'The Times' quickly fell in line as the New Labour house journal.
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.
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.
When I went up to Glasgow University in 1967, student life was dominated by 13-hour debates on Fridays, when one of the student political clubs would form the 'government' for the day and attempt to push through a piece of legislation, which the other clubs either supported or opposed.
If a journalist comes to you with a great story, one of the first questions you ask is how did you get it. How you got it is relevant to judging its accuracy and preparing yourself for any legal challenge.
Since the Holocaust, anti-Semitism is no longer respectable. It was in the 1920s and '30s, but the Holocaust obviously changed that.
I do not regret working with Rupert Murdoch. But there is a nasty undertone to a lot of what he does which does not exist with the Barclays.
With growing economic prowess comes, of course, military power.
With sad, depressing predictability, the children of today's underclass become tomorrow's criminals and dropouts.
During the Blair-Brown decade social concerns - what kind of society we have become - have gradually replaced economic worries. People fear that we have become an increasingly fragmented, boorish, more violent society.
Like all populist movements, the Tea Party will eventually peter out. It won't succeed in returning America to the minimalist state of the 19th century.
Not all Republicans in the class of 2010 owe their seats to the Tea Party. But many do.
Britain's great postwar meritocratic experiment was broad-based, but it was in politics that the change was most dramatic.
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.
This is the only country in the world where you can be criticised for trying too hard. That's a put-down in London.
I don't think the standard of our politicians is very high. And when you get good ones, world-class ones, like a Blair or a Brown or a Thatcher, then they do stand out - they are head and shoulders above everybody else.
I would not rule out Rupert Murdoch once again having control of 'Sky News.'
Don't forget that Rupert Murdoch has always regarded the Op Ed pages of 'The Wall Street Journal' - as he's said to me - as a cup of strong caffeine that gets you going in the morning and tells you what to think.
Well, one person whose company I enjoy is Charlie Whelan. He and I get on really well together.
