
This interesting profile – presented by former BBC political editor Nick Robinson, with contributions from match-winner Cristiano Ronaldo, election-winner Tony Blair, battle-winner Sir Mike Jackson, and from Fergie himself – is about how those leadership skills can transfer to success in other areas. Not just about how to manage a football team very successfully and win a lot of trophies (which I will do, some time). There were some excellent tips in Sir Alex Ferguson: Secrets of Success (BBC1, Sunday).

I’m thinking put that baking on hold, and get a babysitter. By the end of this opener, though, the pulse is beginning to quicken once again, and Carrie’s on her way back to a war zone. Now we’re starting afresh, a little slower, which may prove to be wiser. It started with a bang, and went on getting louder, reaching new peaks of fabulous tension and high drama until there was nowhere left to go, except down, and it went out with a little pop, like a bomb that fails to detonate (they should’ve got Quinn to do it, let his go off, big time). In the last series Homeland regained lost purpose. Echoes of WikiLeaks and Snowden, again Homeland has an eye on the real world. Hackers have stolen thousands of files that contain information about dodgy US/European surveillance operations. Oops, and there’s been a breach of CIA security.


“Our strength is our suffering and you provide us with an endless supply,” he tells her. Isis is regrouping in Raqqa for a new offensive against Assad, there are God knows how many other militias operating, all hell’s breaking loose, and an exodus of civilians has begun, a huge refugee crisis … you can’t accuse Homeland of not being topical.Īnd it’s not long before Carrie’s being bundled into a van and taken to a dimly lit bunker (stuff happens in bunkers in Berlin) to meet an enigmatic Hezbollah leader. She’s Herr During’s head of security, and he wants to go to Lebanon and its border with Syria.
