If you look at it ecologically, deforestation is high on the list of things which bring devastation. You cut down trees to build homes, for fuel, and you end up with no trees left, and you have to move on. If you take the earth as a whole, eventually there's nowhere to move on to.

Gardening has just sort of grown on me. I find it therapeutic. And I like smelly things.

I am going to have to stick to the script. If I muck around with the words it will defeat the object.

On the environmental front there's concern about global warming and high levels of carbon dioxide, and trees take in CO2 and store carbon.

I remember being in China and realising how irrelevant not even Britain is, but also Europe. We're just another remote country that hardly impinges on some places at all.

If I ever had any vanity, then I definitely lost it by being on television.

The labour Party has lost the last four elections. If they lose another, they get to keep the liberal party.