Just as in policing there is an emphasis on civilians to help with paperwork, we must free up trained and experienced social workers to focus on children, not bureaucracy.

Help for first time buyers and other housing market measures will be welcome.

The government should now launch an initiative to encourage people to join the social work profession.

Many in local government will ask why should only a few areas have the freedoms and benefits of Enterprise Zone status while the majority lose out?

When discontent sets in it's time to make some changes. In a world where so much is possible, yet so many people are unhappy, there has to be another way.

I am floating, I thought, completely without anchor, at the mercy of the wind.

The challenge is to keep it fresh. If you're talking about Britney Spears over and over, it's very hard to keep that interesting.

There is hinkiness afoot with regard to my, ah, disposition.

Greatness and madness are next door neighbours; and they borrow each other's sugar. You don't get there without the other.

Learn graceful ways of saying no and of pointing out that this pressure to do something is not in line with most people's wishes.

Life really went backwards. My parents lost everything, all their savings, because we had to run from the Nigerian side to the Biafran side. We were Igbos.

Heartfelt, inspired songwritingwith a delivery both biting and assured.

Be commonplace and creeping and you'll be a success.

Whether the gentleman is capable or not, he is loved all the same; conversely the petty man is loathed all the same.