It's very different doing a food show in America and doing one in Britain. I did a 20-part series for the BBC series called 'Eating With the Enemy.' The budget for all 20 episodes was probably the budget for a… — Toby Young Copy Share Image
Teachers complain a lot about how tough their job is. But, you know, the day begins in most schools at nine o'clock, ends at… — Toby Young Copy Share
I expect that in 40 years' time I'll be writing political tomes and working for an organisation like Oxfam. — Toby Young Copy Share
Oddly, I do have a problem with authority. I find it very difficult to knuckle down and follow rules. Which are the classic symptoms… — Toby Young Copy Share
I really like the Observer. I think I'd love to have a column with a broad reach that would enable me to do some… — Toby Young Copy Share
I've never been to a shrink. But my parents were very psychologically literate - my father had undergone Freudian analysis - and we often… — Toby Young Copy Share
You know when you tell a self-deprecating story at a dinner party, everyone's laughing along with you? But then when someone else repeats that… — Toby Young Copy Share
The fact that I'm a Tory who hasn't worked at a university - at least, not since I taught at Cambridge in 1990 -… — Toby Young Copy Share
If anything bad happens, the media will leap on it. We're under a huge obligation to be successful. — Toby Young Copy Share
“It was journalism at its best: irreverent, mischievous and beholden to no one.” — Toby Young Copy Share
In my capacity as a board member of the OfS, I hope to be impartial, objective, and fair. — Toby Young Copy Share
America thinks of itself as a meritocracy, so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure. — Toby Young Copy Share
I tried being a mechanic and I tried catering, but I realized I had even less aptitude for semi-skilled labour than for academic work. — Toby Young Copy Share
My life's ambition is to play a James Bond villain. I have the cat and the eye-patch, so I'm just waiting for the call.… — Toby Young Copy Share
It's very different doing a food show in America and doing one in Britain. I did a 20-part series for the BBC series called… — Toby Young Copy Share
I was every Londoner's stereotypical idea of a brash, vulgar American. When I got here, it turned out that London was the Wild West,… — Toby Young Copy Share
