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| Monday 19 March 2007 |
A tick-box attitude to toddlers
When even infants are expected to achieve ‘69 early learning goals’, you know that no area of life is free from New Labour’s tyranny of targets.
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| Thursday 28 December 2006 |
A hard cell
Eve Herold on why we should take sides in the Stem Cell Wars, and cheer those scientists pushing the boundaries.
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| Thursday 23 November 2006 |
Down with the Supernanny State
When ministers and TV gurus constantly bang on about the pitfalls of parenting, it is little wonder that some mums and dads feel they 'can't cope'.
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| Friday 17 November 2006 |
Back to skool
When officials offer parents lessons in singing nursery rhymes, it's no wonder some are losing confidence in their abilities.
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| Friday 20 October 2006 |
‘There’s no such thing as “stress”’
Angela Patmore has been branded a 'heartless bitch' for her attack on the stress management industry. Calm down and get a life, she tells her critics.
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| Friday 13 October 2006 |
Publish, and you can still be damned
An 'historic' judgement in the House of Lords might make it easier to defend a libel case, but leaves press freedom subject to a bad law.
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| Thursday 14 September 2006 |
Should childhood come with a health warning?
This week, a group of experts raised critical questions about how we mollycoddle children – but they also indulged some childish prejudices.
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| Tuesday 8 August 2006 |
A hairy moment for free speech
Tommy Sheridan’s libel win over the News of the World was no ‘victory’ for the working class. It was a victory for an archaic law over open debate.
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| Thursday 6 July 2006 |
Don’t tinker with the libel laws – scrap them
No amount of reform will stop England and Ireland's stringent libel laws from having a chilling effect on free speech.
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| Thursday 22 June 2006 |
Stop weeping over whaling
The attack on Japan for continuing to hunt whales is cultural imperialism dressed up in PC lingo.
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| Friday 2 June 2006 |
‘Animals are less valuable than human beings’
Leading researcher John Martin tells Helene Guldberg why it is morally justifiable to cause heart attacks in rats - and why he isn't scared of animal rights extremists.
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| Friday 26 May 2006 |
Stop celebrating Tourette’s
From TV documentaries to Big Brother, why has a neurological disorder become so fashionably fascinating?
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| Monday 30 January 2006 |
Chemical stories can make you blind
A new report washes away some of the myths about ‘potentially deadly’ chemicals.
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| Monday 16 January 2006 |
‘This is like a badly written Greek tragedy’
Stephen Minger of King's Stem Cell Biology Laboratory on the fall from grace of South Korean scientist Woo Suk Hwang.
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| Thursday 3 November 2005 |
Man is more than a beast
The primatologist Frans de Waal says we should get in touch with 'our inner ape'. Speak for yourself.
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| Wednesday 21 September 2005 |
Scientific research: the sky’s the limit
The head of the Wellcome Trust has raised a welcome challenge to the UK government's instrumental approach to scientific research.
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| Friday 29 July 2005 |
Singer on ‘speciesism’: a specious argument
In his new book In Defense of Animals, Peter Singer reduces the value of human life to a tick-list of capabilities.
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| Monday 25 July 2005 |
Why Roman picked London for his libel trial
How does a film director based in France who is a fugitive from the USA sue a US publisher and win? By taking his case to 'a town called Sue'.
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| Tuesday 14 June 2005 |
Tagging three-year-olds for life
The UK government thinks it can cut crime in the future by targeting badly behaved toddlers in the present.
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| Wednesday 25 May 2005 |
The ethical case for animal research
A new report by the Nuffield Council on Bioethics makes a virtue out of 'muddying the water'.
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