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.

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

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.

Over the last two years, I have been able to comb through The Prince's archives. I have been free to read his journals, diaries and many thousands of the letters.

I adore Madonna. She reinvents herself like no one else.

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