Thank you to the London Press Club and the Cudlipp directors for your invitation to speak and the generous introduction. While I have been fortunate enough to be the editor of five national publications: Tatler, the London Evening Standard, The Mail on Sunday, the Daily Mail, and now The Independent, may I first confess to a degree of impostor syndrome.
I think I have learned a lot about this great industry. What it has got right. And what not so right. But while I've spent most of my career as an editor, I began it as a reporter and that's how I still see myself.
One of my most vivid memories is sneaking into an illegal drinking club in Camberwell, the then manor of Charlie Richardson and his Torture Gang. I was there to try to interview Richardson after his release from 20-plus years behind bars - with Fleet Street's finest in pursuit.
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