I just do not understand the stock market. It is like reading Russian.

I think it is outrageous - to lock people's money away and change the rules on them. So, on point of principle, I stopped putting money into my pension.

Women trapped in violent relationships need to know that there's no shame in talking out and walking out on their abusive partners.

At 16, I got a part-time job selling double-glazing door to door. That was soul destroying but the worst part-time job I did was at university working on reception in a sexually transmitted disease clinic. Because no one else wanted to do it, they paid £8 an hour.

My mum was a dinner lady and a cleaner while dad worked night shifts as a hydraulic engineer. They did not have a lot of spare cash and only ever bought what they could afford. We never had a car and cycled everywhere. We never went to restaurants. I did not know what Chinese food tasted like until I was 15.

I just do not understand the stock market. It is like reading Russian.

I never got into debt because my parents had drummed into me at a young age: if you can't afford it, you can't have it.