Growing up on our estate, we were all different colours, but we were all really poor. I never really realised that black was a problem for some people.

Chewing Gum' is kind of like the world I wish I grew up in. There wasn't really a sense of community growing up.

The acting world is tough. It's competitive - and even more so for women - but actually, for black female actresses, the issue isn't really that it's competitive: it's that there just aren't enough roles for them in film and TV.

The unpredictability of the weather, the increasing possibility of intelligence introducing a species more powerful than ours, the growing uncertainty that animals can or should be slaughtered for our pleasure, has led many of us to start asking more complex questions about what is and isn't normal.

Liberals do not appear to address potential solutions with anything like the far right's aura of God-given self-confidence.

It's insane, the Internet. Totally craziness. Like a little cancer. People can just do whatever they want, say whatever they want, be totally anonymous. It's totally out of control.

Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.

It's a leap of faith doing any serialised storytelling.