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In my case, I got hit a lot by bullies when I was a child, and so I naturally bristle against anybody who abuses power. And that seems to make me rather persistent when it comes to exposing the abuse of power.
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Reporters have to use their imagination, really put themselves in the shoes of the person they want to interview.
Nicholas Davies
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I've learnt that your life is more interesting and fulfilling when you don't lead it in a straight line and you go off on zigzags. I've made it a rule that if life becomes too comfortable and easy, I'll disrupt it.
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It is an odd thing about newspapers that they live by exposure, yet they keep their own worlds concealed.
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It is a rule of life in the power elite that there is no such thing as a purely social act.
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The effect of climate change is not simply to reduce rain during the summer months, but also to increase the number of torrential storms. When the rain falls that hard and fast, it cannot sink into the ground and go down to the aquifers.
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Good newspapers believe in giving a balanced view of the world. Fine. Some people then exploit that belief and use it to balance truth with falsehood.
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The friends of tabloid newspapers often point out that their journalism exists only because millions of people pay money to read it.
Nicholas Davies
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A trial deals with only a limited amount of information, considering only the evidence which is available and also admissible and which relates directly to the charges on the indictment.
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I spent two years working on building sites, working on the railways as a guard and in a racing stable, exercising racehorses. I learnt to build relationships. The experience of not being stuck in some middle-class bubble taught me things that being at university hadn't.
Nicholas Davies