There is an inherent tolerance and kindness in the state school teenagers I know.

If there's one thing I know, it's this - everybody thinks somebody else is having a better life.

The crushing, pitiful, and frequently just plain risible pathos of an unsuccessful actor/performer's life is well charted.

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

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

If one's honest about it, spending time in a car with children is pretty ghastly.

Call me an over anxious, middle-class mum, but my eight-and-a-half-year old son looks very much, to me, like he's headed for a life of crime.