I Was A Political Journalist;

Another Of Cicero's Maxims Was That If You Must Do Something Unpopular, You Might As Well Do It Wholeheartedly, For In Politics There Is No Credit To Be Won By Timidity.

In A Way I'm Almost More Rueful About The Notion Of Having A Non-ideological Labour Party Than I Am About The Personality Of Tony Blair.

Don't Try To Write Too Much In A Single Session. One Thousand Words A Day Is Quite Enough. Stop After About Four Or Five Hours.

By Dawn He Had Surrendered, Gratefully, To The Old Inertia, The Product Of Always Seeing Both Sides Of Every Question.

What A Heap Of Ash Most Political Careers Amount To, When One Really Stops To Consider Them!