In An Ideal World, It

May I Share With You My Earliest Memory Of A Political Row? It Was With My Mother, About The Queen - Classic Freudian Stuff, Shrinks Would Say. I Was Eight, And Refusing To Watch The Queen's Christmas Day Broadcast.

Sometimes Jonathan [powell] And Myself Would Go To Tony [blair] And Ask Him If He Was Absolutely Sure About This Or That. That Was Our Job. But Ultimately It Was His Decision.

Don't Accept That You Are In Crisis Just Because Everyone Says You Are.

The Day Of The Daredevil Reporter Who Refuses To See Obstacles To Getting The Truth, And Seeing It With His Or Her Own Eyes, Seems To Have Died.

One Day, We Will Look Back And Wonder How On Earth We Used To Believe That Depression Was A Lifestyle Choice, Only To Be Debated And Taken Seriously When An A List Film Star Took His Life, And The World Filled With People Saying How Shocked And Saddened They Were.