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.

Wild men are so enormously attractive.

Work motivates me. I love what I do and I'm a positive person, I've always liked what I've done as a job - however grim it was.

As the Tories know, the problem with setting yourself up as a shining example for others to follow is that when you get caught out, that proverbial substance really hits the fan.

I don't know really, it doesn't feel like it has changed to me but I think to have to move with the times. Try out different areas and not get stuck in 1978.

I have seen good nurses and bad nurses. They existed along a continuum: from hard-working, kind and competent people, to office-hugging, bone-idle types, to apathetic, disengaged automatons.

I went on the pill when I was 16, put on four stone... so that proved to be a very effective contraceptive.