There Are Many Reasons For The Decline

May I Share With You My Earliest Memory Of A Political Row? It Was With My Mother, About The Queen - Classic Freudian Stuff, Shrinks Would Say. I Was Eight, And Refusing To Watch The Queen's Christmas Day Broadcast.

I Will Continue To Help The Political Causes I Believe In In Any Way I Can.

I Have Always Been Driven. I Have Always Believed In What I Believe Very Deeply.

Greg Dyke Is On Record As Saying That Once The Bbc Was Attacked, It Was Their Job To Defend Themselves. But That Is Not Their Job.

Paul Keating Told Us Before We Were Elected That You Can Do Deals With [rupert] Murdoch Without Saying You Were Doing A Deal. Did We Do That Kind Of Thing? Maybe. But From Around About The Turn Of The Century, I Felt Strongly That We Had To Do Something About Media Ownership And Self-regulation. Tony [blair] Disagreed.