I don't envy Michelle Obama. Intelligent, ambitious and capable, she is Barack's equal in every sense yet her most recent individual contribution to the Machiavellian circus that is the American election was her participation in the 'First Lady Cookie Bake Off'. Luckily though her Princeton education seemed to have covered...

I can instantly hate another woman on the basis of something very trivial. The stereotype I perceive from her hair colour, the floral print summer dress she is perhaps wearing or her articulate discussion on how the latest tax reforms will affect her.

This hatred stems from three simple reasons:

'If you are not a liberal at 20, you have no heart. If you are not conservative by 40, you have no brain'. The radical idealism of young people never changes and Winston Churchill's quote still remains as relevant as ever 70 years on. One only needs to look around...

A recent survey declared that Britain's children are "culture starved" with 50% of parents leaving their child's cultural enrichment to their school and a quarter of them having never taken their child to the theatre.

Now as a child, my weekend was simply not complete if I...