If the traditional British elite had made a great success of running my country, as successful, say, as the elites of Germany, Japan and America, then maybe it would be a club worth joining.
Andrew Neil
With growing economic prowess comes, of course, military power.
Class and the snobbery it provokes still matter far too much in Britain, but we are a far more mobile society than we used to be.
I'm not arguing for a return to the grammar school system, but there must be a way of identifying bright kids from ordinary backgrounds and giving them a world-class education.
Don't forget that Rupert Murdoch has always regarded the Op Ed pages of 'The Wall Street Journal' - as he's said to me - as a cup of strong caffeine that gets you going in the morning and tells you what to think.
Britain is now living with the consequences of allowing an underclass to take root and fester.
With each step away from communist constructivism to Hayekian capitalism, China has been richly rewarded.
I haven't got a family. I live to work.
If you're on the pull, a hen party gaggle, a gang of rowdy chavs or a group of braying snotty bottys, then Baros is not for you - which means it's just grand for the rest of us.
Muslims are not our enemy.
The English, in their ignorance, still have the romantic notion that Scottish schools are superior to English ones; they are at least a generation out of date.
You know, Rupert Murdoch I've said is like an Italian when it comes to negotiations.
When I was growing up the obvious antisemites were the knuckle-draggers in the National Front.
No, you see, unlike some interviewers, I love politics... overall I am not anti-politicians at all. I recognise they are more important than me.
I would not rule out Rupert Murdoch once again having control of 'Sky News.'
I travelled through the night in a bus with the Kentucky Tea Party en route to a massive rally in Washington. For the most part I found them decent, self-reliant, regular Americans who feared the American Dream was now over, not just for them but for their children and grandchildren.
Most children of the underclass are born out of wedlock; relationships are fleeting and unstable (which ensures that what is born into the underclass stays in the underclass). This is a world in which there are almost no worthwhile male role models, which is a disaster when boys turn to youths.
I get nervous if the bath is too deep.
Well, we all make mistakes, and I've made some; getting involved in a price-cutting campaign in Scotland when the biggest slump in advertising history was just around the corner was a mistake.
Britain's great postwar meritocratic experiment was broad-based, but it was in politics that the change was most dramatic.
The Sunday paper is an odd British cultural tradition.
Memo to self: never again try to travel by train in Britain on a Sunday.
The Sun' and the 'News of the World' fell in line behind New Labour in the run up to the 1997 election, 'The Times' stayed broadly neutral and 'The Sunday Times' unenthusiastically Tory. After the election, 'The Times' quickly fell in line as the New Labour house journal.
Look, I don't want to edit the 'Scotsman.' I have too many other things going on. I have four newspapers to run and two dot com companies going gangbusters.
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.
I do not regret working with Rupert Murdoch. But there is a nasty undertone to a lot of what he does which does not exist with the Barclays.
If 'Spectator Business' works, we will continue this brand extension strategy and look at everything from 'Spectator Arts' to 'Spectator Style and Travel' or 'Spectator Connoisseur.'
It's probably the journalist in me, but I'm naturally suspicious about consensus and always feel an impulse to confront it.
Since the Holocaust, anti-Semitism is no longer respectable. It was in the 1920s and '30s, but the Holocaust obviously changed that.
Journalists always want publishers or editors to leave. They're creative troublemakers - that's why you hire them.
During the Blair-Brown decade social concerns - what kind of society we have become - have gradually replaced economic worries. People fear that we have become an increasingly fragmented, boorish, more violent society.
When one English person speaks, another one immediately classifies him. No class system in the world is so audible, which is also why it is so pernicious and enduring.
I don't fall in love easily... But I do fall in love.
Donald Trump's grip on the Republican parties stronger than ever post the Mueller report.
There's a substantial difference between dumping 100 copies of the 'Telegraph' at a Connex South Central station and giving away copies of the 'Business' with the 'Mail on Sunday.' 'This kind of circulation is valuable and enhances the brand. Leaving them anywhere willy-nilly devalues the brand.
Now, I bow to nobody when it comes to estimating the influence of 'This Week.'
The old Establishment has always preserved its position by not being too exclusive - it has been wily enough to absorb the up-and-coming and convert them to their attitudes and mannerisms.
I've got a house that's only 45 minutes from Monte Carlo.
My favourite sport's cricket and one of the key things in cricket is to know when to declare.
You don't really appreciate how much you are going to miss your parents. I keep thinking of all the times I should have made the effort to go up and see them but didn't.
In the highly unlikely event that the 'Telegraph' was to be sold again, then 'The Spectator' doesn't go with 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.
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.
No-one in their right mind would buy the 'New Statesman' and change it from being a left-wing to a right-wing magazine.
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.
When you have variety, you have freedom.
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.
I read more bloggers now than mainstream columnists, because they've got more interesting things to say.
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.
Every house has to have rules - even 'Animal House.'
