In an ideal world, it would not take a film star to get the media focused on mental illness.
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So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a truly happy life until the very end. This view of life and death was reinforced by my close witnessing of the buildup to the death of Philip Gould. Philip was without doubt my closest friend in politics. When he died, I felt like I had lost a limb.
Friends have suggested that I am the least qualified person to talk about happiness, because I am often down, and sometimes profoundly depressed. But I think that's where my qualification comes from. Because to know happiness, it helps to know unhappiness.
My public caricature - that of a self-confident alpha male - is only partly accurate.
My closest friend, who died not long ago, is buried near Marx's grave in Highgate cemetery, so I see the gaggle of admirers laying roses at the foot of his tombstone regularly. I have never been tempted to leave flowers there myself. Great theories, shame about the practice. Marx did many things. But inventing class was not one of them.
My dad, Donald, was a vet and had a practice in Yorkshire. Cats and dogs were his bread and butter, but his greatest love was large animals.
The bad news for journalists today is that the media, however seriously people who are in the public eye take it, is not taken as seriously as it once was - by the public.
I'm certainly driven, I hate losing, I can be ruthless and short-tempered and terribly competitive.
Like most meaningful activities, campaigns are team games.
One in four of us will have a mental illness at some point. That is a lot of people.
We should confine booing in sports arenas to sport. I love a good boo as much as the next football fan.
Don't accept that you are in crisis just because everyone says you are.
I have always been driven. I have always believed in what I believe very deeply.
I used to be very routine-based and the new thing in my life is not having a clear, full-time existence.
I will continue to help the political causes I believe in in any way I can.
The day of the daredevil reporter who refuses to see obstacles to getting the truth, and seeing it with his or her own eyes, seems to have died.
The media are obsessed with spin doctors and with portraying them as a bad thing, yet seem addicted to our medicine.
There are many reasons for the decline in royal esteem. One is that so many of the royals are thick.
There has been a shift to what may be defined as a culture of negativity which goes well beyond coverage of politics.
Clinton is a big personality who has led a big life, and for some of the media conventional wisdom to boil it down to a view that 'all people are really interested in' are a few moments of madness in the Oval Office gets him, the importance of the presidency, and the significance of his life, all wrong.
My aunty says I'm the double of my father. He was a workaholic, which I've definitely inherited. And like me, he could be the life and soul of the party, but also quite withdrawn.
May I share with you my earliest memory of a political row? It was with my mother, about the Queen - classic Freudian stuff, shrinks would say. I was eight, and refusing to watch the Queen's Christmas Day broadcast.
There is something in me that makes me see things through.
To me, marriage is partly a religious thing and I'm not religious.
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