For Me, The Main Principle For Broadcasters

Now Undoubtedly, We Face Some Very British Challenges When It Comes To Infrastructure. We Rightly Cherish Our Back Yards And Green Spaces, And We'll Defend Them Passionately When Projects Are Announced. We Live In A Democracy, And We Like To Debate These Things, Often For Many Years.

It Is No Wonder That Bank Capital Is Regulated. When Borrowing And Lending Is Profitable, It Is Tempting For Banks To Scale Up Their Operations And To Borrow And Lend Too Much In Relation To Their Capital, In Effect Reducing The Effectiveness Of The Potential Capital Cushion.

Now I Can Broadcast To An Audience Of Several Million People On The 'today' Programme. I Can Talk About The Day's News. But On Radio, Believe It Or Not, We Have Notes And Scripts. And While We Might Ad Lib The Odd Wryly Amusing Asides, They Come At The Frequency Of A Suburban Bus. About One Every 90 Minutes.

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 Rules.

I Swing Both Ways. I Can See Things From A Kind Of Conservative Point Of View And From A More Socially Liberal Or Left-wing Point Of View.