Ever more people are alert to the challenge of global poverty and global warming. We know that solutions are at hand. We will not sleepwalk into catastrophe. We have the capacity to forsee and forestall, and I believe we will find the will to act

I honestly believe that TV generally is obsessed with the ratings battle to the point of cutting its own throat.

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.

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.

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

The challenge is the culture. You have to have a vision for the BBC-it can't merely be that it's big and has a place in the market.

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