Gyles Brandreth
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Of your weaknesses?
Oh, my weakness is a desire to be liked.
We all have that, isn't it?
Well, it is a weakness.
Well, I'm trying too hard.
Well, leaning forward when sometimes it would be good to lean back.
Okay.
Well, I've given you a couple there.
Good.
So you basically have no weaknesses.
We clearly are quite similar in more ways than we realize.
Well, but I've got to have, you've had Vanity Fair.
Actually, they're called novelty knits.
I've even done the books.
Now, look, I've got three more quick questions that I always ask at the end.
But before I do, earlier on you gave us a lesson in what an editor requires of a good piece, which included various things like, well, we've been on a journey, which I think is good.
We haven't, though, had necessarily a revelation
We haven't had a... Have we had conflict?
I don't think so.
What, if you were the editor of this as a magazine piece, are the missing elements that you as the editor would be saying, I've enjoyed the writer's version.