Children
Bad news, Boris – childcare has cost me £500,000 (and counting)
Welcome to the cripplingly expensive world of childcare, Boris
The problem with ‘role models’
Who needs role models anyway?
Westminster and the truth about the class ceiling
Social mobility is more urgently needed than ever
Do schools really have a problem with sexual violence?
Schools and the problem of ‘rape culture’
Britain's Covid baby bust is bleak news
These are lean times for hospitality and retail. But at least pubs and shops have their champions, popping up on…
Why is it racist to wonder what colour your child’s skin will be?
Why is it racist to wonder what skin colour your child will have?
The conservative appeal of drug gangs
According to the Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick, the easing of lock-down will be accompanied by a rise in crime…
The true cost of school closures – an interview with the children's commissioner
Anne Longfield, the Children’s Commissioner, on why schools must reopen
What has happened to parenting?
During a recent webinar with British MPs, I learned that parents in Bradford were up in arms because their children…
We must stop treating juvenile offenders as lost causes
Juvenile offenders need safety, care and a proper education
What lockdown means for families with disabled children
What lockdown means for families with disabled children
Who first committed ‘cultural appropriation’?
Culture clashes The pop star Adele was accused of ‘cultural appropriation’ for adopting a Jamaican hairstyle for the online Notting…
Children who died of Covid-19 were already seriously ill, new study shows
It has been clear from the start of the Covid-19 crisis – from Wuhan’s experience, before cases were confirmed in…
What explains the rising number of children with gender issues?
I have recently read a fascinating new paper, via a Mail on Sunday report, about the growing number of children…
Letters: Why is the problem of working-class white boys not considered worth solving?
Left-behind boys Sir: Christopher Snowdon’s perceptive and informative article (‘The lost boys’, 18 July) reflects perfectly my own experiences in…
The lost boys: the white working class is being left behind
Britain’s forgotten demographic
The best recordings of Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortilèges
‘I don’t want to do my work. I want to go for a walk. I want to eat all the…
The world of make-believe is stranger than we realise
Last summer, in the bc era, I took my then three-year-old to a new group play session: ‘Lottie’s Magic Box.’…
If you want children to love reading, don’t tell them what to read
If you want children to love reading, don’t tell them what to read
It’s possible to talk to children about politics without leading them in one direction
My six-year-old son announced, from the back of the car, that he was backing Boris Johnson. My wife, who’s voting…
Children’s literature has become horribly right-on
There was a spat the other week about a children’s book, Equal to Everything: Judge Brenda and the Supreme Court,…
Extinction Rebellion proves Aristotle was right about the follies of youth
Extinction Rebellion is blocking the streets again, foolishly demanding the impossible on a very important issue. But what does one…
Why do we keep pretending that children are wiser than adults?
We’ve begun to behave as if young people are special; more virtuous and wiser than adults. It’s wrong and it’s…
At last, the TV-hogging space invaders have returned to university
‘Hands up which other university parents are bloody glad to have got rid of their lumpen, food-gobbling, space-invading kids…’ When…
Deft, elegant and genuinely chilling: Garsington’s Turn of the Screw reviewed
Think of the children in opera. Not knowing sopranos and mezzos, pigtailed and pinafored or tightly trousered-up to look child-like,…
