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.

You have to be damn certain you're putting something better in its place.

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

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

The BBC produces wonderful programmes; it also produces a load of old rubbish.