I love rage. Rage is brilliant. Rage gets stuff done. Rage, harnessed and appropriate unleashed, can change the world.

Occasionally, however, our anger leads us towards a dead end. All the important issues of the moment, the things which really impact our day-to-day lives are hurtling down a nearby...

Last Wednesday, 28 November 2012, a 15-year-old student from Cambridge stood in front of members of the Duke & Duchess of Cambridge, five hundred of her peers and representatives from the World press and proudly declared that she is a lesbian, whilst doing the 'rock' sign.

This bold statement...

Switch on your television, flick through a magazine or browse the internet and you'll be assaulted by headlines tempting you to behold the spectacle of "the 63 stone man!", the "anorexic who weighs the same as your average five year old!", or "the model whose desperate bid for success ended...

Picture the scene. I've just taught a co-ed year seven class, at an endearingly lovely state school, in the posh end of Hertfordshire. The teachers have whipped the students (and themselves) into a state of frenzy, convinced they have a 'celeb' in their midst (largely based on my regular appearances...

When we say 'riot', it conjures an image of a group of people united by a common purpose, rebelling against the system, sticking it to the man, possibly to a 1970s glam-rock inspired soundtrack. Last summer's UK riots, which lasted four days, defied that premise totally. In London, economically deprived...