Journalists should think of themselves as outside the Establishment, and owners can't be too worried about what they're told at their country clubs.

It wasn't Gavin we were worried about but Charlotte. She was refusing to appear on MTV.

I think a newspaper should be provocative, stir 'em up, but you can't do that on television. It's just not on.

Is there any other industry in this country which seeks to presume so completely to give the customer what he does not want?

I'm considered homophobic and crazy about these things and old fashioned. But I think that the family - father, mother, children - is fundamental to our civilisation.

I don't think we set that figure in concrete,