By Asking The Question 'am I Happy?,'

If You Look At The Other People Around At The Time - Charles Clarke, Alistair Darling, Jack Straw - They've All Gone. And They're Not Old. What's Happened Is That Someone Who Is Quite Old - Jeremy Corbyn - Is Now Leader. We Have To Take Some Responsibility For That.

In An Ideal World, It Would Not Take A Film Star To Get The Media Focused On Mental Illness.

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.

One Of The More Fatuous Remarks I've Heard In Recent Days Is That 'my Life,' Clinton's Autobiography, Is Too Long And, At Almost 1,000 Pages, Short It Is Not. But This Man Was For Eight Years The President Of The Most Powerful Country On Earth.

By Asking The Question 'am I Happy?,' And Via The Answer Setting Out What I Mean By Happiness, There Is A Political Route That Can Be Taken, By Asking Another Question - 'can Politics Deliver Happiness, And Should It Try?'