If we are to learn from these mistakes in time for the Olympics, we must have some answers from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport about why this has gone so very wrong.

This setback raises serious concerns about our ability to deliver on time and to budget. If we are to learn from these mistakes in time for the Olympics, we must have answers ... about why this has gone so very wrong. We can't postpone the Olympics.

The white paper singularly fails to rise to the challenge the BBC now faces. It was supposed to provide us with a springboard to the new digital age. But it is not so much a launching pad as a holding pen.

Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.

We need more time. We have a report, and we're waiting for some answers back on some issues.

It's about time that we recognized that we hold the answers to most of the questions we have been asking [about drugs].