I find myself born into this particular position. I'm determined to make the most of it. And to do whatever I can to help. And I hope I leave things behind a little bit better than I found them.

Fast food may appear to be cheap food and, in the literal sense it often is, but that is because huge social and environmental costs are being excluded from the calculations.

The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa - slightly off balance.

You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe: when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that.

We should be treating, I think, the whole issue of climate change and global warming with a far greater degree of priority than I think is happening now.

If you chuck away too many things, you end up discovering there was value in them.

Something as curious as the monarchy won't survive unless you take account of people's attitudes. After all, if people don't want it, they won't have it.