When popularity is your only goal, doing well in class is going to feature very low, if at all, on your priority list.

Statistically, if you have ever dieted you are extremely likely not only to regain any weight you lose, but to go on to gain even more. Dieting makes you fat.

I would like it to be a legal requirement for all businesses to be linked to a charity.

If you have any power at all from being popular, then you have a duty to help people out.

Why has everything got to be about feelings these days? In the old days, no one knew what anyone was feeling and, what's more, they weren't expected to.

I'm the co-chair of the PTA at my kids' school, Ashmount Primary, in north Islington, London.

Success, in whatever form it takes, is a tricky thing - once you've achieved your goal, then what? Where do you aim?