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All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.

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I've seen the Pokemon movie, which is probably the worst movie ever made on any subject ever.

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No, there are no hard and fast rules about sources, no printed booklet to help journalists through.

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This job certainly doesn't win you a huge amount of friends, I accept that, but it is very enjoyable, and deep down I think it's probably quite a worthwhile job.

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Internet journalism is not a world we know very well at all. It's conducted more on the screen and less in bars, which makes it rather less useful for getting stories about people throwing up over one another, which is what one's after.

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There's an awful lot of terrible television which I could do, but I mostly stick to Have I Got News for You.

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They may well say not only is this not true, but I will put in an injunction to prevent publication. No, stories don't go in unless I'm convinced by the people who write them that they're true. And if I'm wrong, then so be it.

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For a long time I thought I should be a civil engineer. That seemed to be the only thing worth doing, and I chose the wrong subjects at A-level. I read all the sciences to start with, and then had to admit, 'This isn't what I want to do' and changed course.

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My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman, hadn't gone to university but should have done. Was very funny, very verbal, very clever, very witty.

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I'm often accused of being prudish, but the opposite is true.

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Biography

Nationality: Welsh

Type: Editor

Born: July 13th, 1960

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