Andrew Neil

No-one in their right mind would buy the 'New Statesman' and change it from being a left-wing to a right-wing magazine. ”

Britain's great postwar meritocratic experiment was broad-based, but it was in politics that the change was most dramatic. ”

There are two ways you can buy an education in this country. You can pay the fees. Or you can cheat and buy a house in an area where there's a good school. ”

The Sunday paper is an odd British cultural tradition. ”

I don't say for a moment that the far right is no longer a problem. We have seen the neo-Nazi nutters in Charlottesville in America. ”

I even remember at the age of five watching a documentary on the Ku Klux Klan that was quite terrifying because it was men in white sheets who looked like ghosts to me. ”

I spend a lot of time in New York. ”

It is actually getting much harder for someone from an ordinary background to break through the ranks. In the period from 1964 to 1997, every single Prime Minister - from Harold Wilson to John Major - was the product of a state school. ”

Ever since I left the 'Sunday Times' there has been a group of scribes waiting for me to fall on my face, and having a go at my commercial record, looking to pick holes in it. ”

Whereas people increasingly get their news from the Internet, magazines have a different atmospheric to them. A magazine is something you sit down and relax with. ”