The above is my brother's card for my birthday.

I fully agree with your statement above bro!

For all the others if they are or not in my magic circle, I am taking the glass in my hand and toast as follows:

  Cheers to all the people who love me,

  Cheers the losers who lost me, and

  Cheers the lucky bastards who get to meet me!

Thank you for good wishes bro, I will go windsurfing shortly, Tenerife and Barbados are waiting!

Many will know that the last 25 years of my life have been dominated by the impact of cancer. Hopefully I have now survived my cancers, due to the extraordinary work of the team at St Thomas’ Hospital and Guys Hospital in London along with treatment on which I was working with a team of nearly 400 scientists, doctors, consultants, researchers, lab specialist and others.

The treatments over the past years have been brutal - but I am still here.

The work of my cancer foundation, to help find cures and good treatments for cancer, is now very much the focus of my time. My inspiration for the foundation was the untimely loss of my wife to brain cancer. She lived with this disease for more than 10 years and was a true inspiration to both me and our children.

I truly hope the work of the foundation does justice to her memory and her brave fight with this horrible disease.

Reaching 70 seems a fitting time to reflect on what next. For many many months I did not even hope this could be possible. I look at my children and think about all they have seen watching both of their parents struggle to fight this horrendous disease. It has not been easy for them, not only to lose their mum at such a young age but also to live under the daily cloud of both parents living with a potentially life limiting disease.

I give thanks to my medical team, my family and to God for enabling me to be here today. But now I can glimpse my future – for goodness knows how long it may be – it’s time to prioritise.

There remain many fights to be had in all areas of my life. But I do recognise that some of these fights will kill me, due to the stress and irrational behaviour of those involved.

I’ve made the decision; they are all stopping. They can all be the winners. I’ve asked my team to work towards settlement or whatever it takes to resolve these long on-going disputes. Mr Trump says we need to stop the killing – this is only thing I do agree with him about – and I don’t want any of these disputes to kill me; so it stops.

Alongside some windsurfing, basketball, tennis and dog walking – my focus is now on the truly important work of my cancer foundation and all it holds dear to me, in commemoration of those that have lost their life too soon against this cruel disease.

Cheers to all those on the journey with me!