There's no doubt that the squad needs strengthening if we are to get back up among the top three because they are operating on another level to us at the moment.
What is our destiny? Does it matter? Is it bound up with 'our' planet? In my opinion, yes.
There is an honourable tradition in British public life that those charged with authority at the top of an organisation should accept responsibility for what happens in that organisation. I am therefore writing to the prime minister today to tender my resignation as chairman of the BBC.

