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 ….

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

My father was a film-maker. He always said he wanted to go like Humphrey Jennings, the legendary director who stepped backwards over a cliff while fr….

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….

Americans think the only funny Brits are John Cleese, Benny Hill and whoever makes our toothpaste. They're not laughing with us, they are laughing at….

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

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….

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

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

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

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

A broadsheet obituarist once pointed out to me that veteran soldiers die by rank. First to go are the generals, admirals and air marshals, then the b….

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..

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….

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