Look, I want what's good for everybody. I want to promote good state education for all. I want to raise standards for all kids, irrespective of race and class but why can't they all just do what I say when I know I'm right?

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

In the 20 long, hungry years between my late teens and late 30s I bought in to virtually every new diet and/or exercise regime that hoved into view, particularly at this most vulnerable time for those of us prone to poor body image - a new year.

My dad was a diplomat and after living in America, where I was born, he was posted to Cairo.

As I was growing up, it was made clear that the fat me wasn't welcome, that a thin person was expected and awaited, and impatiently so.

Sending your child off to school for the first time in their life is terrifying.

Despotism isn't nearly as bad as it's cracked up to be.