Andrew Neil Quotes

Andrew Neil

Profession : Journalist

Birth : May 21, 1949

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.

Andrew Neil

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.

Andrew Neil

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.

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The sucking sound of capital being pulled out of Europe and into East Asia is almost deafening.

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It's probably the journalist in me, but I'm naturally suspicious about consensus and always feel an impulse to confront it.

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Well, one person whose company I enjoy is Charlie Whelan. He and I get on really well together.

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Memo to self: never again try to travel by train in Britain on a Sunday.

Andrew Neil

Muslims are not our enemy.

Andrew Neil

When I was at Paisley Grammar we were equipped to compete with the private-school kids - and encouraged to do so. The sky was the limit, provided we had ability, ambition and a capacity for hard work.

Andrew Neil

Britain's great postwar meritocratic experiment was broad-based, but it was in politics that the change was most dramatic.

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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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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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Many U.S. Sunday papers are monopolies, and their contents can be an extension of the daily.

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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.

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I haven't got a family. I live to work.

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I never set out to get married and the way things have worked out I never have.

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

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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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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.

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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.

Andrew Neil