It was a private conversation between myself and another elected official, and that's the end of it. We can work read more

It was a private conversation between myself and another elected official, and that's the end of it. We can work on other issues.

There has been a transformation - you can feel it among the players - but I can hold my hand read more

There has been a transformation - you can feel it among the players - but I can hold my hand up and say that is not down to me coaching on the field. You'd be better off asking Michael Foley and Richard Graham about that because they have been in charge, not me.

A substantial number of beneficiaries are already enrolled, but a lot turns on what those who are on the fence read more

A substantial number of beneficiaries are already enrolled, but a lot turns on what those who are on the fence decide to do between now and May 15. If they stay out for now, some could face financial penalties down the road if they later change their mind.

I don't really see [today's bad corporate news] as significant fundamental factors, I see it more as an excuse for read more

I don't really see [today's bad corporate news] as significant fundamental factors, I see it more as an excuse for short-term profit-taking. The correction we've seen is very small relative to the rally we've seen in the last few weeks.

By saying I'd been up on the roof, I hoped to prove that I had intimate knowledge of how and read more

By saying I'd been up on the roof, I hoped to prove that I had intimate knowledge of how and why he'd died. It was my ego asserting itself: I was there, we were good friends.

All politicians are control freaks; they think they own you, ... Crazy mayors want to tax the Internet. If government read more

All politicians are control freaks; they think they own you, ... Crazy mayors want to tax the Internet. If government finds they can't tax the shopkeepers, they'll tax the shoppers.

I handle fame by not being famous...I'm not famous to me.

I handle fame by not being famous...I'm not famous to me.

New stock offerings on the market are attracting more interest. There's also a lot of speculative trading by investors on read more

New stock offerings on the market are attracting more interest. There's also a lot of speculative trading by investors on the hope that the index will keep touching record highs.

[The trains were never forgotten, but the extent of their influence only came to light with the arrival of the read more

[The trains were never forgotten, but the extent of their influence only came to light with the arrival of the internet and the subsequent flowering of genealogical research. This obsession with roots will be felt especially keenly by foundlings, who often have no way of exploring their family histories.] I notice that genealogical sites now have warnings on them saying people should be ready for little surprises, ... They're not all going to find themselves descended from King Henry VIII or Richard Cur de Lion or Wellington. This is rather strange because it was pretty taken for granted a few generations ago that families had all kinds of little moments where things had gone not according to the book. It was just one of those things. You tried to accommodate it. There was no social welfare. You just had to sort it out within villages, the families, the parish. Children went to the workhouse, but people knew about it. Nowadays, there's a kind of surprise that these cases were so commonplace.