My point is that this Potter business has legs. It will run and run, and we must be utterly mad, as a country, to leave it to the Americans to make money from a great British invention. I appeal to the children of this country and to their Potter-fiend parents to write to Warner Bros and Universal, and perhaps, even, to the great J K herself. Bring Harry home to Britain-and if you want a site with less rainfall than Rome, with excellent public transport, and strong connections to Harry Potter, I have just the place.

Can I say anything good about Ken Livingstone? A long time ago he did some good things, but I can't now remember what any of them were.

London is a fantastic creator of jobs - but many of these jobs are going to people who don't originate in this country.

It just happens I write fast and always have done.

I'm no communist.I'm a tax cutting Conservative. But I want a capitalism that is fairer to forgotten people.

I love tennis with a passion. I challenged Boris Becker to a match once and he said he was up for it but he never called back. I bet I could make him run around.

Some people play the piano, some do Sudoku, some watch television, some people go out to dinner parties. I write books.