How do you conduct an intimate relationship where no one ever loses it? Where no one ever lashes out, where no one ever smacks anyone in the mouth?

Who do I like? I am a big fan of French and Saunders - not that that they are particularly stand-up I have to say, but I think they have been great for women and they are of themselves just incredibly funny whether they are male or female.

There are so many cliches associated with mental health - such as the 'fine line between lunacy and genius' - which are, on the whole, a load of rubbish.

To me, a politician's job is to listen to constituents' problems and try to sort them out.

My mum taught me to knit when I was a child, and I turn to it, for some weird reason, when I'm feeling depressed.

Most of us manage the fateful things that happen in our lives the best we can, certainly not to a Stalin-like 20-year plan.

My dad's a very sensitive man, but as the archetypal rebellious teenager, I didn't realise that.