I wanted to write as well as I possibly could to deal with life-and-death problems in contemporary society. And the form of Wilkie Collins and Graham Greene, of Hammett and Chandler, seemed to offer me all the rope I would ever need.

If ever I was feeling down I would go and write something. It's a form of escape.

Google may wish they hadn't embraced that. It's a very long rope on which they could possibly hang themselves.

We would be interested in bidding if Collins & Aikman in the U.S. were to come up for sale,

Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society.

Riordan is the only one who they might try and move on if they get a decent offer. Caldwell possibly going to Celtic is the other one, but I think that is likelier to happen at the end of the season. They're all playing regular, top-team football so there's no great need for them to leave. One or two of the bigger clubs might let their players go on loan to smaller clubs and Kilmarnock might be on the lookout for a striker now that Boyd's gone.