The fax machine had been unplugged at the other end.

But it did take a while to get the fax in.

My workspace is defined by books, ephemera, quiet and light. I don't have a computer, telephone or a fax machine there.

I'm not terribly technological. I'm awfully backward about iPads and BlackBerries and suchlike; I still have a great fondness for Teletext, and I clung onto my fax machine for as long as I could, but eventually you have to move with the times.

Men have become tools of their tools.

You simply can't have 90 percent of email and phone and fax traffic coming into a newspaper ombudsman from just one ideological perspective.