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

Programme names have been changed, and we have Andrew Neil saying he won't be using long words.

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

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

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

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