I'm not thick-skinned at all, and of course I'm hurt by people attacking me as a person.
When fast food is not a treat but a dietary staple, the children surf the internet all day in dark corners of the room and are bombarded with latest gadgets. Things replace parental standards.
My forebears refused to cut the sugar cane for plantation owners, and I am recognisably a product of that background.
Because when you watch U.S. television, all the presenters and reporters, they're all out of central casting.
The honest truth is that if this government were to propose the massacre of the first-born, it would still have no difficulty in getting it through the Commons.
Mental health is often missing from public health debates even though it's critical to wellbeing.
I don't think you can have pain and soul-searching doing the right thing for your child.
Gun crime is a major cause of fear and distress throughout the UK. The problem is deeply entrenched in a wide range of social and cultural factors and therefore not an isolated issue.
My London constituency in Hackney has one of the highest levels of gun crime in the country. But the problem is no longer confined to inner city areas. Gun crime has spread to communities all over Britain.
You can't defend the indefensible - anything you say sounds self-serving and hypocritical.
Outsiders often have an insight that an insider doesn't quite have.
Finally, there's a sense in which I look at this Westminster village and London intelligentsia as an outsider.
My family were from Jamaica.
Families are struggling against a tide of junk information on junk food.
I'm not the only Labour MP who sent their child to public school but I'm the only one who's questioned about it.
Abortion is an issue of conscience for the Labour party.
My father was a manual worker.
I was a postman one Christmas and I developed a morbid fear of dogs.
Tackling childhood obesity is key.
I spend a lot of time visiting local organisations.
