Why has everything got to be about feelings these days? In the old days, no one knew what anyone was feeling and, what's more, they weren't expected ….

Look, I want what's good for everybody. I want to promote good state education for all. I want to raise standards for all kids, irrespective of race ….

I would like it to be a legal requirement for all businesses to be linked to a charity..

My mother, father, stepmother and surrogate mother have all died of cancer; my best friend has got terminal cancer and at least five of my other frie….

I spent my entire childhood living abroad because of my father's occupation, so we were on long-haul flights all the time..

The crushing, pitiful, and frequently just plain risible pathos of an unsuccessful actor/performer's life is well charted..

I was accorded the opportunity to learn by failing - albeit at the cost of a few honourable teachers' sanity - and now I realise what a rare and incr….

Sticking to a diet required me to have a permanently low self-esteem. But happily, I developed other skills beyond a fluctuating weight, eventually b….

There is an inherent tolerance and kindness in the state school teenagers I know..

I met Tom Baker doing a voice-over when David [Arabella's friend, David Tennant] wasn't at all well known. We were doing this voice-over together and….

I dont understand boys - just ask my husband..

As I was growing up, it was made clear that the fat me wasn't welcome, that a thin person was expected and awaited, and impatiently so..

I'm the co-chair of the PTA at my kids' school, Ashmount Primary, in north Islington, London..

There is so much that is positive, wonderful even, about state schools. At a state school your kids will learn to live alongside and appreciate other….

I don't think I've got the expertise with which to nit-pick, and I freely admit that my motivation to support charities has been emotional, rather th….

I wish my parents hadn't made me feel that how I looked was linked to how much they loved me. But I do also see how hard it must be to see your child….

If I'm hunting down gifts, I like to buy locally..

Sending your child off to school for the first time in their life is terrifying..

I have never done a package tour in my life. It appeals in a way, but then I remind myself that you can't control the other people with you, which co….

My parents' generation's benchmark was simple: Fat Equals Bad..

Does everyone turn into a truculent thirteen-year-old when they go home, or is it just me?.