Sure, you can criticise the food and the elbows, but nothing beats the ability to skip around the world from the (relative) comfort of a chair 30,000 feet in the air.

History so pervades the United Kingdom that its citizens can't focus on the present - just look at the debate over Margaret Thatcher's tenure in the 80s.

I'm not bald and I don't wear a suit, but I might as well be an economist for all the good they have done predicting the future.

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I have traded a few phrases with the editor, stood at the back looking confused during James Murdoch's presentations on the 'digital future' and I have played football with two reporters now helping the police with their inquiries.

Hopefully, my incidental role means I am not tainted by association, but allows me to say 'I was there' to witness perhaps the last days of one of the world's great newspapers.

No, not the News Of The World; I'm talking about The Times.

Topics: information-and-communication, journalism, print-media