Resilient people do not let adversity define them, because they have been conditioned to perceive bad times as a temporary situation.

We should avoid the temptation to apply a ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach to mental health either to boys and girls or across different cultures.

Socialising is a basic human need. The opposite – social isolation – is one of the worst forms of torture. Some people look down on the local pub as a place for undesirable riff raff, but that narrow viewpoint misses entirely the community value of the pub

educational underachievement can have personal costs to individuals and to society, especially when underachievement turns into delinquency and crime.

Anyone who knows about the educational underachievement of boys compared to girls will have been surprised by the headlines about the 2017 A-level results. But despite all these celebratory headlines, having looked in detail at gender differences in the available data, it seems this isn’t actually the turning point for boys that was so widely reported at all.

Casual sex is an ego boost and the context can be thrilling, but the actual sex is perceived as awkward, uncomfortable and disappointing