At Halloween a lot of young people were wearing Bush masks mocked up as an incarnation of the Devil.

It happens all the time. People feel threatened by my height.

Should I shoot him? He was a tyrant. He'd killed thousands.

The only way to do my job without optimism would be as a cynic, and that's not my nature.

Bush is perhaps a brighter man that we imply, but on the other hand he's probably just as narrow a man as we report him to be.

I don't think there is a tremendous future for large numbers of news channels in Britain. It's moving so fast to the web, and their numbers - all the news channels - are so pitifully small. Increasingly, if there's a major news development you are going to the web first to find out what's happening there and then.