It's absolutely fine to think of new ways of doing things, and I'm not just asking for the traditional reporter to look into our living rooms night after night.

I ought to rejoice in the fact that our principal rival has died, but I don't.

While I have corrected agreed factual errors, I have not been inhibited from writing what I felt to be the truth about The Prince of Wales.

The BBC has the obligation to think big. And at the moment, that clarion call sounds an uncertain note to me.

I'm not certain that the BBC can claim to be making a wide enough range of distinctive programmes to make the case convincingly.

Not every programme dealing with issues of global significance has to be fronted by last weeks winner of Have I Got News For You-but I suppose you might be wrong.

I was disappointed not to be able to interview Mr. Clinton. I met him two years ago. I was looking forward to talking with him about issues from Africa to terrorism.