I deplore the loss of arts on BBC One and Two.

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

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

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 had no expectation that the Prince would offer me the unprecedented and unfettered access to the original and entirely untapped sources on which this biography is based.

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