Celebrity culture is something that pains me.

Skinny is only one body type.

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

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.

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.

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.