The truth and the facts aren't necessarily the same thing. Telling the truth is the object of all art; facts are what the unimaginative have instead ….

Nobody ever forgets their first night in the bush. It's among the precious, meagre handful of life firsts that remain indelible..

The reason that chefs become chefs is that they're not allowed into rooms with windows..

Is it a particularly British trait to so utterly adore truly appalling men, from Tony Hancock through to Steptoe and Alf Garnett, Captain Mainwaring,….

Beautifully shot, impeccably paced, it was a clear, unrelenting look at the National Trust, its friends and enemies, and it makes you want to burn yo….

There were moments when I wondered at the gossamer veil that stops licence from being libel. I suspect that taking on the job of England manager puts….

He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers' melt waters to go back.

An American has invented a remote control that will turn off any telly within a 20ft radius. What a marvellous device! What a splendid invention! Wha….

I walk up a dune to a beach and look out to sea, but it's 100km away. The ships lie askew in their dry beds, at anchor for ever. Today is my son's bi….

Celebrity is a national drama whose characters' parts and plots are written by the tabloids, gossip columnists, websites and interactive buttons. The….

We like to see death as an unfair conspiracy, and what we want is a magic practitioner, a combination of Dr Watson and Sherlock Holmes..

America didn’t bypass or escape civilization. It did something far more profound, far cleverer: it simply changed what civilization could be..

Sport is how poor kids from poor countries pass through the eye of the needle to riches and recognition..

I still secretly believe that afternoons are the time for the test card and you shouldn't watch television when the sun is out..

Television gives us the gift to see ourselves as we'd like to be seen..

The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isn’t wishful thinking. It’s the rule..

If the world were to end tomorrow and we could choose to save only one thing as the explanation and memorial to who we were, then we couldn't do bett….

Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are g….

Making a programme that appears to condone a positive stereotype actually enforces all the negative ones as well. It says that they all have a valid ….

I don't know how long a child will remain utterly static in front of the television, but my guess is that it could be well into their thirties..

The usual sniggering examples of animal behaviour were brought in to explain cheating. Funny how the behaviour of shrews and gibbons is never used to….