Our idea of a healthy body is so destabilised that insecure people have come to bolster their own bodies by deeming others - those with fat bodies - less worthy, less capable and less employable.

When I was growing up, one or two girls were beautiful, but it was not an aspiration, right?

Boys, young men, men of all ages are being captivated by the new visual grammar which pushes men to pout and posture.

There is no such thing as a neutral therapist.

There are so many young women who tip over into being a facsimile: they don't really inhabit their lives or their bodies.

Public intellectuals come from a range of areas and use their expertise to comment more widely than just their field. They want to make a contribution to public space, and they stick their necks out to do it.

The parents' job is to be there for their kids, not the other way round. Troubles between parents need to be talked through with friends and not visited on the children.