I have very few regrets in my life. I don’t really believe in ‘what ifs’ or looking back with a degree of wistfulness, but this ‘bucket list’ with a difference gives a clue to what some of my regrets might be, as well as list a few things that were always going to unfulfilled dreams. I suppose fifteen of them are still theoretically possible, but I’ll leave it to you to work out which they are!
- Present my own TV Political Chat Show
- Play for West Ham
- Work in Washington DC
- Live in Switzerland
- Appear on Desert Island Discs
- Spend a month skiing
- Attend the White House Correspondents Dinner
- To make documentaries like Michael Cockerell’s
- Learn to speak Dutch
- Write a novel
- Be Secretary of State for Transport
- Get a single figure golf handicap
- Become a director of West Ham United
- Write a multi-volume biography of a leading politician
- Spend a month touring all the US Presidential Libraries
- Buy holiday homes in Germany, Switzerland, France, Florida and Italy
- Visit the Falkland Islands
- Perform at the Edinburgh Fringe
- Have a weekly multi-story column in a national newspaper
- Host my own own music radio show
- Play Augusta
