A newspaper is always a weapon in somebody's hands. - Claud Cockburn

A devout and serious Christian, she was often bothered by what she read of socialists because she could not, instantly and absolutely, see where they were so wrong. To her horrified ear, they kept sounding as though they had ideas rather like Christ's.

Since becoming a journalist I had often heard the advice to "believe nothing until it has been officially denied".

There is nothing quite so terrifying as a mad sheep.