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At seven years old, I won a scholarship to George Heriot's School, an independent school in Edinburgh, and I was there until I was 17.Collection: Gavin
I did modern English and American literature at Kent University, with no Chaucer and no Middle English: a perfect course.Collection: Gavin
I was going to do medicine at Edinburgh University - when I was three weeks old I nearly died, but they did an operation and I survived. It was a huge thing for my family - I was the first-born - and doctors were heroes, so I wanted to join them.Collection: Gavin
Brexit is turning out to be a really really bad meal. We ordered steak and chips and we've now got some raw chicken that smells bad.Collection: Gavin
There are people who appear on television who are paid for by shadowy think tanks whose financing they won't come clean about.Collection: Gavin
If someone appears on television and makes a comment, and we quote that comment, we are being accurate. But are we actually being sensible if we don't know if that comment is based on any facts whatsoever? It is something that journalists have to be much more aware of.Collection: Gavin
I spent the first three years of my life with my parents, grandmother and two aunties in a tiny council house in Glasgow.Collection: Gavin
I mostly like politicians. Very few of them are evil, although quite a lot are delusional.Collection: Gavin
This is the only life I'm ever going to have, so shouldn't I at least try to be happy?Collection: Gavin
As journalists we are sceptical by nature, but there are some things you take on trust.Collection: Gavin
I never have met any heroes - except one. The exception is Ian Anderson, flute player extraordinaire, creative musical talent for more than 40 years, and the man most associated with the band Jethro Tull.Collection: Gavin
A Jethro Tull album was - along with Cream and Led Zeppelin - one of the first I ever bought.Collection: Gavin
I've never learned to speak a foreign language with ease.Collection: Gavin
I cry at births and not at funerals.Collection: Gavin
London thrives because it is one of the most open cities in the world, but Brexit is shutting the door on talented people coming to live and work here - the people we need when we get sick, the ones we see on the Tube, our friends and neighbours. Even worse, it has made London a less tolerant place.Collection: Gavin
There is so much unreliable information on the internet and in the media.Collection: Gavin
Life is about relationships, not transactions.Collection: Gavin
The country I live in is never clear about its name. My passport says 'the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland,' and citizens of the U.K. may call themselves British, English, Scottish, Welsh or from Northern Ireland.Collection: Gavin
The U.S. has always been an indispensable ally.Collection: Gavin
As a teenager in Scotland, I had American friends, sons and daughters of officers at a U.S. Air Force base.Collection: Gavin
From Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos to Google and Facebook, many of America's greatest entrepreneurs, musicians, movie directors and novelists are world beaters.Collection: Gavin
In difficult times, most of us need friends.Collection: Gavin
Democratic government is difficult. It is much more difficult than populists claim. It's not like running a business or a police force. It demands compromise.Collection: Gavin
Compromise disappoints those who buy into the most ambitious and simplistic populist slogans.Collection: Gavin
Populism, literally, means speaking for 'the people.' In practice it means demagoguery.Collection: Gavin
Government is not a game show, though at times it is amusing and entertaining to watch.Collection: Gavin
Receiving my first degree was one of the most important days of my life.Collection: Gavin
During my childhood in the Cold War, my family saw America as a great ally in our common struggle to keep back Soviet communism.Collection: Gavin
Donald Trump's tweets attract ridicule from some. But clearly they communicate effectively with his millions of supporters.Collection: Gavin
One of my American heroes is the great former U.S. diplomat George Kennan.Collection: Gavin
A political and economic system that only works for a small group at the top is a system that needs to change.Collection: Gavin
As a journalist, I have spent years reporting on often difficult and depressing conflicts, on poverty, and the inhuman way we sometimes treat each other.Collection: Gavin
I've always been a fan of the Overton Window. It's not a piece of glass but a political theory named after the conservative American political analyst, Joseph P Overton.Collection: Gavin
We need to create a sense of shame about racism, and about leaders who deliberately mislead and lie.Collection: Gavin
People in the U.S. who feel they need guns or enjoy gun sports of various types, are, in other words, decent, law-abiding, generally honest members of society. Their wish to have guns should be respected.Collection: Gavin
The skills necessary to change nappies or negotiate Brexit are obviously very different, but both involve a great deal of trust in the competence of the people doing the job.Collection: Gavin
International politics attracts politicians who talk a good game, but whose achievements are often slender.Collection: Gavin
Amateurism has its place in government, in journalism and also on the tennis court, but lack of expertise means politicians routinely promise far more than they achieve.Collection: Gavin
Leaders of organisations, political parties and large businesses frequently fail to talk in a straight and entirely truthful fashion.Collection: Gavin
In years of interviewing presidents, prime ministers and chief executives all over the world, I can remember only a handful of times in which a leader has said: 'I don't know' in answer to a question. Perhaps everyone I have ever interviewed knows everything about everything, but I doubt it.Collection: Gavin