“... or the directors. I send them thank you notes and good wishes, and today comes a lovely card from Martin Freeman, whom I don’t know, but who is so good about the monologue he did (A Chip in the Sugar) that I want to write back and thank him, thus making it like an extract from A Lady of Letters, a thank you letter for a thank you letter. I’m so pleased ...”

“... it in breach of the rules a dozen times. It broke impartiality rules in 2023 when its presenter Martin Daubney, a former Brexit Party MEP, introduced a discussion on asylum policy by declaring that the government had ‘lost the plot on illegal immigration’, before interviewing the then Reform UK leader, Richard Tice. Throughout the interview, ticker tape ...”

“... Four are a politically heterogeneous bunch: at one end, Cardinal Basil Hume, Robert Kee, Merlyn Rees, Lord Scarman and the late Lord Devlin; at the other, rhetoric-ridden, far-left Trotskyist groupings. And in between the world and its dog. The only thing on which all are agreed – some with more knowledge of the facts than others – is that Paul ...”