I'm proud to have played a major part in destroying Fleet Street, a corrupt cartel of unions and proprietors that operated against the public interest.

Andrew Neil

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Sometimes, I think 'The Spectator' is calculated to embarrass me.

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I don't fall in love easily... But I do fall in love.

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With growing economic prowess comes, of course, military power.

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The Business' has been an editorial success, with a core audience that loves it. But commercially it has never been a success as a newspaper. It just gets crowded out on a Sunday.

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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.

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When you have variety, you have freedom.

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My favourite sport's cricket and one of the key things in cricket is to know when to declare.

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I don't even read 'the Sun' and it's my job to read everything that's politically important. I think that's a symbol of the declining power of the mainstream media.

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I read more bloggers now than mainstream columnists, because they've got more interesting things to say.

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The Spectator' has to be managed and people have to report. We all have bosses in this world and that's true of 'The Spectator' too.

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Every house has to have rules - even 'Animal House.'

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In the highly unlikely event that the 'Telegraph' was to be sold again, then 'The Spectator' doesn't go with it.

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

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I am a better journalist than I am a businessman.

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My mentor is Alastair Burnet, the greatest news anchor Britain has had.

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I always wanted to have a career in print and as a broadcaster.

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The only exception to the demise/struggles of the European centre-left is Macron, in French presidential and parliamentary elections 2017.

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If I had a pound for every former editor who hadn't cut the mustard advising me what to do, I'd be a very rich man.

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I made it clear when the Barclays took over the 'Telegraph' that I wanted no editorial position there. There is no way I could take a high-level editorial position at the papers. I have my work for the BBC, and that would be compromised if I did.

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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.

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