“Political reporters no longer get to decide what's news. The days when a minister gave briefings to a dozen lobby correspondents, and thereby dictated the next day's headlines, are over. Now, a thousand bloggers decide for themselves what is interesting. If enough of them are tickled then, bingo, yo”

“I had to know if I could make it somewhere else. I did not want to go through the rest of my life wondering what might have been without putting myself to the test.”