Being able to provoke a different point of view to the standard current ideological or political perspective as played out in conventional newspaper or radio reportage is what a public intellectual does. But it's not merely about being oppositional, because that's too negative.

From a child's point of view, there is rarely a great time for parents to separate, even if there has been a lot of commotion and fighting.

I thought of the analyst Winnicott's observation: 'It is a joy to be hidden but disaster not to be found'.

We know that ever woman wants to be thin. Our images of womanhood are almost synonymous with thinness.

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.

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

When they took TV to Fiji they found that after 3 years nearly 12 girls out of 100 were over the toilet bowls with bulimia because they felt inferior.