Broadcasting is really too important to be left to the broadcasters.

I think if journalists were responsible for international policy we'd have a nuclear war every week.

Encouragement is the most important thing in the world for young people, rather than league tables, which demoralise everyone.

Choice depends on the freedom to choose and if you are shackled with debt you don't have the freedom to choose.

I'm a democrat - I don't support Bush, I don't support Blair, I don't support Bin Laden.

I think democracy is the most revolutionary thing in the world, because if you have power you use it to meet the needs of you and your community.

If the Queen can reject the advice of a minister on a little thing like a postage stamp, what would happen if she rejected the advice of the Prime Minister on a major matter? If the Crown personally can reject advice, then, of course, the whole democratic facade turns out to be false