If You're Not Making Some

Even The 'today' Programme Involves A Balance Between The Worthy-but-heavy Items With The Worthless-but-entertainingly-light Ones.

For Me, The Main Principle For Broadcasters Has To Be That If People Stand To Benefit From An Interview, They Should Be Prepared To Face Some Downside As Well.

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?'

All Socio-political Phenomena In The U.k. Come Laden With The Baggage Of A Class-based Theory Or Two Attached To Them. In The Case Of Gay Tories, There Is One Particularly Silly Variant Of The Category, Which Asserts That Gayness Is Bred In Public Schools And Thus Fits With Conservatism Like Hand In Glove.

Put Simply, Behavioural Economics Argues That Human Beings' Decision-taking Is Guided By The Evolutionary Baggage Which We Bring With Us To The Present Day. Evolution Has Made Us Rational To A Point, But Not Perfectly So. It Has Given Us Emotions, For Example, Which Programme Us To Override Our Rational Brain And Act More Instinctively.