Go read – here and here. About the BBC he writes:
I’m sufficiently conservative to believe in the concept and the ethos of public-service broadcasting financed by a consumer levy; it so happens that the BBC as it is currently constituted has betrayed that ethos and gives scant indication that it even recognises the problem.
I’ll second that; as well as Oliver’s suggestion for ‘the ideal Chairman of the Governors to replace Gavyn Davies’.