I don't fall in love easily... But I do fall in love.
— Andrew Neil
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.'
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.
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.
I spend a lot of time in New York.
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.
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.
I am not an insider - definitely not... but I don't think you could call me an outsider.
Journalists always want publishers or editors to leave. They're creative troublemakers - that's why you hire them.
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.
I always wanted to have a career in print and as a broadcaster.
Sometimes, I think 'The Spectator' is calculated to embarrass me.
Every house has to have rules - even 'Animal House.'
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.
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.
I never set out to get married and the way things have worked out I never have.
The Sunday paper is an odd British cultural tradition.
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.
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.
Look, I don't want to edit the 'Scotsman.' I have too many other things going on. I have four newspapers to run and two dot com companies going gangbusters.
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.
Newspapers are what matter in this country, not magazines.
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.
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.
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.
My mentor is Alastair Burnet, the greatest news anchor Britain has had.
No-one in their right mind would buy the 'New Statesman' and change it from being a left-wing to a right-wing magazine.
The Spectator' has to be managed and people have to report. We all have bosses in this world and that's true of 'The Spectator' too.
My favourite sport's cricket and one of the key things in cricket is to know when to declare.
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.
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.
Many U.S. Sunday papers are monopolies, and their contents can be an extension of the daily.
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.
The Scotsman' is a cheerleader for devolution.
You have to live and breathe Scotland if you're 'Scotsman' editor.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The only exception to the demise/struggles of the European centre-left is Macron, in French presidential and parliamentary elections 2017.
I am a better journalist than I am a businessman.
In the highly unlikely event that the 'Telegraph' was to be sold again, then 'The Spectator' doesn't go with it.
I read more bloggers now than mainstream columnists, because they've got more interesting things to say.
When you have variety, you have freedom.
