I feel my son brought all of this on himself. They could have had it all and it could have been a great life ... but he just blew it.

In the beginning, I felt that he really, seriously meant to take care of us ... and we'd live on happily there.

I never envisioned that it would come to this. I thought everybody would give a little. I still love my son, but I don't love the person he's become, and what he has done.

Globalisation means that for a high-wage, developed economy like Britain's to compete we need to focus our efforts on the highly skilled, added-value sectors such as advanced manufacturing, creative industries, engineering and even financial services.

I wonder whether being a scientist's daughter makes you so conflicted about free will and fate.

The norm has been that as housing ages, it's occupied by lower-income people. That's not so anymore.