One in four of us will have a mental illness at some point. That is a lot of people.

In an ideal world, it would not take a film star to get the media focused on mental illness.

By asking the question 'Am I happy?,' and via the answer setting out what I mean by happiness, there is a political route that can be taken, by asking another question - 'Can politics deliver happiness, and should it try?'

My public caricature - that of a self-confident alpha male - is only partly accurate.

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.

Don't accept that you are in crisis just because everyone says you are.

The media are obsessed with spin doctors and with portraying them as a bad thing, yet seem addicted to our medicine.