As Tony [Blair] said in his book, Gordon [Brown] was brilliant and impossible. If he'd just been one of those things, the options are obvious.

We should confine booing in sports arenas to sport. I love a good boo as much as the next football fan.

Jeremy, are we going to play your games?

One day, we will look back and wonder how on earth we used to believe that depression was a lifestyle choice, only to be debated and taken seriously when an A List film star took his life, and the world filled with people saying how shocked and saddened they were.

I used to be very routine-based and the new thing in my life is not having a clear, full-time existence.

Failure, it is thought, is what sells, and what people want to hear and read about. I am not so sure.

My aunty says I'm the double of my father. He was a workaholic, which I've definitely inherited. And like me, he could be the life and soul of the party, but also quite withdrawn.