Richard Donkin's answers

Freedom to build your role, civilized atmosphere (not quite what it was), bright colleagues.

I won an award, had a phone call from the Managing Editor, met him for lunch, the rest was a formality.

An in-depth investigation during the early 1990s in to the people and organisations that helped to arm Iraq.

In just one day, digging among company records, we pinned down a network of companies that had been established by Iraqi intelligence officers to channel weapons system and nuclear technology to Iraq....

Borough Market, Tate Modern, Southwark Cathedral, The Hop Cellars, The Boot & Flogger.

Working with frighteningly bright colleagues who all seemed to know more than me about almost everything.

That even frighteningly bright people like my old colleagues don't know everything.