 I want to, first of all, pay a brief tribute to John Pilger, the great journalist who has just died. I can remember John Pilger from back in the 1970s when he was active on British television. You could find his articles in the mainstream media in Britain. I seem to remember that he had a column. He used to regularly publish, for example, in the mirror, which in those days was Britain's biggest circulation newspaper. He was a regular contributor to The Guardian, the new statesman. You heard him all the time. You read him all the time. And at that time, in the 1970s and thereafter, he continued to be what he always was, a brilliant reporter. In fact, an outstanding reporter, an incisive, brilliant, intelligent journalist, a journalist of absolute integrity. And gradually, as the years passed, his brilliance continued exactly as always. He remained a tremendous supporter, for example, of Julian Assange. In my opinion, in no sense did the quality of his journalism diminish. And yet, to my dismay, even as the quality of his work and the sheer volume of it continued exactly as before, when slowly saw him diminish. He stopped appearing on television, his articles no longer appeared in newspapers, mainstream newspapers in Britain. He was no longer invited to talk shows. It's as if a major effort was made to cause him to fade away. The fact remains that, in spite of all of that, he continued to have a diverted following, as I know. He retained an extraordinary capacity to inform and enlighten people. He continued to reach millions of people around the world. And it was the media, in my opinion, the mainstream media, which, by turning its back on him, became impoverished and diminished, not Pilger, of course, and not the sum of humanity, which, as I said, continued to take an interest in all that he did. I would say that I was immensely fortunate and have always felt a great debt of gratitude to Joe Laurier and Consortium News for the fact that, in various programmes that Consortium News hosted on the topic of Julian Assange, I was invited and participated. And John Pilger was also a guest on those shows. And, as a result, we had a few brief interactions, brief interactions, which I will remember always. Anyway, the passing of a great man, a great journalist, I've seen that there are a few obituaries now appearing in the mainstream media. I'm not going to waste time reading them. I can already guess the kind of things that they're going to say. As far as I'm concerned, the world of journalism is just a little smaller today.