The royal family's existence is a constant reminder of the hollowness of John Major's rhetoric, and idiotic statements by its leading members a constant boost to the republican cause. They're fine opening hospitals. It's when they open their mouths they get into trouble.

There are many reasons for the decline in royal esteem. One is that so many of the royals are thick.

My public caricature - that of a self-confident alpha male - is only partly accurate.

There is something in me that makes me see things through.

I had a happy childhood.

One in four of us will have a mental illness at some point. That is a lot of people.

The bad news for journalists today is that the media, however seriously people who are in the public eye take it, is not taken as seriously as it once was - by the public.