That business aspect of the media, that Charlotte Street world, the advertising and programme executives, it leaves me absolutely cold. I'm supposed to be the director of a television company, but I've only ever seen that company as a vehicle for making the kind of programmes we wanted to make, getting our ideas on the screen.

I used to do my Nelson Mandela voice to blag restaurant tables in Cape Town. It rarely worked. Now what a great city that is.

I am just fascinated by this reassurance from a menacing figure. It is rather frightening.

It is almost impossible to say the name of Thai prime minister Yingluck Shinawat without adding 'give a dog a bone'

I've no idea what they make of me. People usually don't recognise themselves in an impression.

William Hague, the world's favourite hairline.

Politics now is rather like going into Starbucks for a coffee.