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Fiona Phillips: A Day to Remember for World Alzheimer's Day

Journalist, broadcaster and television presenter

We take it for granted, but memory is fundamental to everything you do. As soon as you start losing your memory your whole life goes into meltdown. When my mother started having trouble with her memory it was difficult because she was only in her 50s. At the time we just thought she was being eccentric. She had always been funny, always saying the wrong thing at the wrong time and we would think 'I can't believe she said that!' But this was an exaggerated form. She started crying a lot.

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Putting the Record Straight on Youth Employment

Damian Collins, 21/09/12

Conservative MP and member of Culture and Media Select Committee

It was alleged on Wednesday morning by the London Metro newspaper that I told an audience of young people in a debate at Channel 4's offices that they should busk to raise money to use public transport, leave school at 16 and work for less than the minimum wage. No direct quotations can be found attributing these remarks to me. That is because I said none of these things.

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UK Celebrity

A Day to Remember

Michael Parkinson, 21/09/12

English broadcaster, journalist and author

Muhammad Ali came with a legend surrounding him. I interviewed him four times and was fortunate to map out the rise and fall of this fascinating man. He was an extraordinary man, and a great athlete, with charisma; nobody I have ever met had that in such abundance as he.

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UK Culture

The Case for War - How War Has Brought Us Language, Religion, Culture and Technology

Andrew Marr, 21/09/12

Journalist, broadcaster and avid consumer of history

If we know one thing, we know wars are dreadful, the worst that can happen to mankind. So how can we deal with the awkward fact that, in the great sweep of human history, wars have surprisingly often produced the breakthroughs, in ideas as well as technologies, the rest of us then come to depend on?

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UK Lifestyle

A Day to Remember

Gordon Banks, 21/09/12

One of the greatest goalkeepers in English football history

Life is about memories. I've got a career where I've got loads of memories. But even just an ordinary man in the street, like my brother David, he's got his memories as well. And not to be able to think about them, remember them, that must be awful. That must be terrible.

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UK Lifestyle

Prejudice in Briefs: Why Page Three Is Toxic to All Women

Caroline Criado-Perez, 21/09/12

Award-winning freelance journalist and feminist campaigner

So in which direction does Page Three nudge us? Let me introduce the uninitiated to a little box called 'News in Briefs'. This little box purports to be the thoughts of the girl posing that day; they are presented in erudite fashion, and contain an esoteric quotation.

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UK Lifestyle

Mea Culpa Mechanics - Notes on What Makes Some Apologies Work and Others Fall Flat

Mark Fletcher-Brown, 21/09/12

Commsmeister

Sometimes people say sorry when they don't mean it. And surprise, surprise, people don't believe a word. So what makes an apology real? Here are some tests...

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Beat This Big Ugly Money Consuming Monster

Ilco van der Linde, 21/09/12

Founder/Creative Director MasterPeace

Over a decade ago, 21 September was chosen for this honorable role but it's still one of the best kept secrets of the United Nations. On Friday at UN Headquarters in NY, a boy will ring a bell, a girl will sing Imagine and at noon, guests will experience one minute of silence.

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UK Politics

The Government Must Ensure the Pupil Premium Is Being Used to Transform Disadvantaged Pupils' Educational Experience

Anne Marie Carrie, 21/09/12

Chief executive of Barnardo's

Thursday's report from Ofsted revealing that the pupil premium is not consistently being used effectively is deeply concerning. It is particularly worrying since if targeted correctly, the funding has real potential to help to transform disadvantaged pupils' educational experience.

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UK Politics

Right to Buy?

Tom Copley, 21/09/12

Labour member of the London Assembly

It was hardly a surprise when a Tory housing minister in a Tory-led government announced that he was to reanimate the corpse of right to buy. Once again, reassurances have been given that each home sold will be replaced. Yet the devil is as always in the detail.

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UK Lifestyle

Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Samia al Qadhi, 21/09/12

CEO, Breast Cancer Care

Evelyn Lauder was a true inspiration; she had personal experience of breast cancer and was determined to address a crucial lack of funding in breast cancer research at the time. She led the pink power movement that lit up iconic buildings in pink across the world and got people everywhere taking about breast cancer.

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UK Politics

Big Change to Put Customers First, Not Bankers

Richard Lloyd, 21/09/12

Executive Director, Which?

We thought we'd seen banking at its lowest point when the public were forced to bail out the banks four years ago, but since then we've seen the libor rate-rigging scandal and continued mis-selling. All the while the bankers who presided over corruption continue to enjoy hugely inflated pay and bonuses.

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UK Tech

Empowering Children Through Opportunity

Mike Tobin, 21/09/12

Chief Executive Officer of TelecityGroup

I've always been a firm believer in the value of providing children with the opportunity to better themselves. It is an issue that is very close to my heart, having experienced a troubled childhood myself.

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UK Lifestyle

Aged Balsamic, Heritage Beets - But What About the Gin?

Ryan Cheti, 21/09/12

A.K.A Mr Lyan, international cocktail expert

To me, the real crux of the food revival hasn't been that more people own a kitchen blowtorch or a bottle of truffle oil than before, but that people are focussing on their own tastes much closely... My real hope is that with a few pointers, I can get people doing the same with their drinks

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UK Lifestyle

Painkillers Cause Headaches - Finding Another Way

Laura Knowles, 20/09/12

Kinesiologist and Alternative Health Expert

Painkillers can't be considered as a cure for headaches. They block the pain receptors that are giving the brain the message that there is a problem. Painkillers are not addressing the problem of where the headache is really coming from.

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UK Style

Autumn Essentials: The Jumper

Eleanor Doughty, 20/09/12

Freelance fashion journalist

Winter dressing is fun. I like to think of it as an exercise in wearing all your favourite clothes at once, a thought that is far too exciting

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UK Lifestyle

Stop Writing About My Body

Carla Buzasi, 20/09/12

Carla Buzasi is editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post UK

There's been an awful lot written about women's bodies recently. What with the endless articles devoted to Kate's boobs, the revelation that the 'average' woman spends 17 years of her life on a diet, not to mention the ongoing political battle about who gets to decide when she keeps or doesn't keep her unborn child. All in all, that's a lot of column inches devoted to fatness, thinness and everything in-between. No wonder we're all so f*cked up about our figures.

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UK Politics

It's Time To Arm The Police

Norman Brennan, 20/09/12

Campaigner and former police officer of 31 years

Police officers do not want to carry guns, but many know they need to be to armed in order to carry out their duties in 21st century Britain. I am not passionate about arming the police, but sadly I know it has long been a necessity.

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Lazy Journalism in Chevaline Murder Case Must Be Challenged

Shreen Ayob, 20/09/12

Blogger

On 5 September an old friend of mine, Saad Al-Hilli, along with his wife and mother-in-law were shot dead near the village of Chevaline in the French Alps. The incident is complex so it's ripe for armchair detectives to investigate from the comfort of their homes.

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Biofuels Are Causing Misery for Millions and Costing UK Consumers

Ruth Kelly, 20/09/12

Economic policy adviser, Oxfam

They were touted as the solution to climate change but they have ended up making it worse, depriving millions of people of food, land and water - and UK consumers are paying the price at the pump. Replacing fossil fuels with biofuels has backfired and only big business is benefitting.

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UK Politics

Plans to Freeze Benefits Reveal the Lack of Reform in Welfare

Kayte Lawton, 20/09/12

Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Public Policy Research

Freezing working-age benefits would almost certainly weaken the living standards of low-income families, including the millions of working families who rely on tax credits to top up their earnings. The Coalition's reliance on benefit freezes to curb rising welfare spending also suggests they are running out of ideas on welfare reform.

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UK Politics

The Problem Isn't Badgers, It's (Politically Led?) Bad Science

Hilary Burrage, 20/09/12

Sociologist and social policy commentator

National Farmers' Union and the majority of farmers - but not all - may believe that badger culls will do the trick, and a lot of politicians want to keep the farmers onside. And it will probably pay electoral dividends for a while. But longer term this 'solution' is could even make things worse...

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