There's nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something.

Why can't we have those curves and arches that express feeling in design? What is wrong with them? Why has everything got to be vertical, straight, unbending, only at right angles - and functional?

Organic farming has been shown to provide major benefits for wildlife and the wider environment. The best that can be said about genetically engineered crops is that they will now be monitored to see how much damage they cause.

Grandparenthood is a unique moment in anyone's life, as countless kind people have told me in recent months, so I am enormously proud and happy to be a grandfather for the first time and we are eagerly looking forward to seeing the baby in the near future.

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.

Forests are the world's air-conditioning system-the lungs of the planet-and we are on the verge of switching it off.