Personally, I'd like us to have a few more women on the 'Today' programme..

If you're not making some mistakes, it probably means you're not trying hard enough..

For industry to settle in a country, you first need electricity; for electricity, you need some trained workers; for trained workers, you need some s….

Historically, the British have always been rather wary of grand engineering projects - perhaps understandably, given that many of them have been deli….

But sometimes it's good to dare yourself to do the unthinkable. And rather than stand in front of an audience with no clothes on, I decided to have a….

It's not a bad idea to occasionally spend a little time thinking about things you take for granted. Plain everyday things..

The two questions that anyone ever asks me are: 'Are house prices going to go down?' and 'Is it a good time to fix my mortgage rate?'.

The key thing about me is that I'm really not very interesting..

I don't particularly like going on about being gay or making a big thing about it, but I think it's a bit of a pain to be secretive about it..

Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in..

Someday we'll look back on this moment and plow into a parked car..

A chair's function is not just to provide a place to sit; it is to provide a medium for self-expression. Chairs are about status, for example. Or sig….

I don't want to sound like 'chirpy Evan' who's just bouncing around with his unrealistic views and doesn't understand what's going on..

Put simply, behavioural economics argues that human beings' decision-taking is guided by the evolutionary baggage which we bring with us to the prese….

Even the 'Today' programme involves a balance between the worthy-but-heavy items with the worthless-but-entertainingly-light ones..

Reducing every issue to an argument can become stale but it's often a very good way of clarifying issues..

It's amazing, if you know what you want to say, how fast it is to write..

We all know that Americans love their statistics - in sport, obviously. And in finance too..

Mistakes are nothing to be ashamed of..

We are more likely to cheat if we see others doing so. We tend to conform to accepted norms of reasonable behaviour, rather than adhere to strict rul….

Being funny, it turns out, is like being a bank. It's a confidence trick. As long as everyone believes in you, you are fine..