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Fathers matter.
My wife does all the driving.
Separate but equal is a fraud.
Leadership is about tough choices.
I've got a very full life beyond my career.
A loving family matters. So do male role models.
As a young man, I was angry about all things legal.
At school, I was frequently subjected to racial abuse.
I certainly knew the hard side of urban life, stop-and-search.
Courts are too distant from the communities they put on trial.
The pressures of being an MP mean free time is a very rare luxury.
To tackle the scourge of young unemployment we need to be ambitious.
I'd always been the kind of lawyer that was attracted back to policy.
Mum worked nonstop, doing two, sometimes three, jobs throughout the 80s.
I'm not one of those people for which politics is my sole preoccupation.
Prejudice is not just a personal sentiment - it can be institutional too.
I'm a legislator, but it's hard to legislate when my party's out of power.
The 1980s were tough for most of Britain, but nowhere more so than Tottenham.
People who have no stake in society are the least likely to have respect for it.
We cannot have different policing for different communities. It is inherently unfair.
Too much of the Brexit rhetoric is based on the desire to go out and re-create Empire.
For even the most seasoned observers of American politics, Barack Obama is a phenomenon.
If you're in the business of law you're in the business of representation and precedent.
Stop and search is an integral cog in a racially disproportionate criminal justice system.
Unemployed people should be treated as potential to be realised, not a problem to be solved.
Supporting Spurs is a bit like being in the Labour Party. It's a labour of love, believe me.
I'm just not convinced that the British people I know and love are interested in revolution.
Family policy is not a zero-sum game: any gain for dads need not come at the expense of mums.
We will not achieve gender equality in the workplace until we fix our system of parental leave.
I like the state of being self-aware, it's interesting when you start to look at your own habits.
Dads are not a risk to be managed, but a resource to be used for the benefit of the whole family.
Active dads make a positive contribution: they are good for children and they are good for mothers.
Football is a great way for me to catch up with my sons, and to let off some steam from my professional life.
I'm not going to be cowed by the rampant racism, the organised racism, that comes from parts of the alt-right.
I tend not to read fiction - I'll read one novel a year during the summer - but I do read a lot of nonfiction.
My biggest fear growing up was that I would end up in prison. That was the fate of growing numbers of my peers.
There were a lot of things I thought of doing as I was growing up, from becoming a singer to a priest to a pilot.
If we want to raise the aspirations of young men, we should be praising their achievements, not talking them down.
I know what to say, how to say it, how to bring profile to the issues I care about and people want to listen to me.
A good life depends on the strength of our relationships with family, friends, neighbours, colleagues and strangers.
Anyone that says the housing crisis can be resolved with one magic bullet or by the next election isn't being honest.
It is hard to speak the truth about valued national institutions. But when they are not fit for purpose, we must speak out.
Mum eventually graduated with a City & Guilds certificate that hung proudly on our living room wall throughout my childhood.
I grew up under Thatcher; the era of apartheid; the era of the poll tax; the era of riots. I remember Neil Kinnock was a hero.
When I was growing up, I wanted to be Michael Jackson. I used to sing and dance and perform with my sister at parties for 50p.
We need specific work on race equality programmes and programmes targeted at helping those who are yet to fulfil their potential.
I'm so bored of tribal politics. That's part of the problem. I'm so bored of it. I'm not a tribalist. That's not what turns me on.
We have to challenge head-on the way the BNP takes legitimate concerns and manipulates them in the interests of its fascist agenda.
As the MP for an area like Tottenham you quickly learn that the factors leading to unemployment are as numerous as they are diverse.
It is the responsibility of all of us to create a culture that encourages and enables fathers to spend more time with their families.