I Think I'm Highly Loveable.

My Public Caricature - That Of A Self-confident Alpha Male - Is Only Partly Accurate.

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.

We Should Confine Booing In Sports Arenas To Sport. I Love A Good Boo As Much As The Next Football Fan.

I Never Met David Kelly, But I Knew From What He Told Other People That This Was Not His View. The Bbc Were Saying That Tony Blair Was Making Up Lies So That He Could Send Young Men And Women To War, Maybe To Die. I Think That If The Bbc Had Done Their Jobs Professionally, They'd Have Realised That You Couldn't Justify What They Said. And Nothing Has Emerged Since To Justify That Report.

The Bad News For Journalists Today Is That The Media, However Seriously People Who Are In The Public Eye Take It, Is Not Taken As Seriously As It Once Was - By The Public.