We accept there's an emotional aspect to life. But we're not very developed in our ways of understanding it.

The insistence that the commercialisation of the body is a fit subject for political discussion and intervention is well overdue.

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.

I'd like to see much more understanding of emotional issues around hurt, abandonment, disappointment, longing, failure and shame, where they stem from and how they drive people and policies brought into public discourse.

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.

Celebrity culture is something that pains me.

Today, 'fat' has become not a description of size but a moral category tainted with criticism and contempt.