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.

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

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

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.

Emotional Literacy means being able to recognise what you are feeling, so that it doesn't interfere with thinking. It becomes another dimension to draw upon when making decisions or encountering situations. Emotional expression by contrast can mean being driven by emotions, so that it isn't possible to think. These two things are often confused, because we are still uncomfortable with the idea of the validity of feelings.

Skinny is only one body type.

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