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| Monday 16 November 2009 |
There’s more to human character than sharing toys
Demos should go on the naughty step for arguing that parenting style determines whether kids become good, bad and even middle class.
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| Friday 6 November 2009 |
Why pedagogy is in peril
Frank Furedi explains that the real problem in education isn’t intefering politicians or pushy parents, but a profound crisis of adult authority.
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| Friday 30 October 2009 |
Why pedagogy is in peril
Frank Furedi, author of the new book Wasted: Why Education Isn’t Educating, talks to Jennie Bristow about the politicisation of education and the crisis of adult authority.
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| Tuesday 6 October 2009 |
Population reduction: a war on women’s bodies
Pro-choice activists must defend women’s reproductive rights against those who say we should curb population growth to save the planet.
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| Monday 21 September 2009 |
There’s more to parenting than egg production
Treating all women as mothers-to-be, who must conform to certain health and behaviour norms, turns us into little more than farmyard hens.
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| Thursday 13 August 2009 |
Why parents should oppose vetting
For generations, parents invited other adults to help raise and care for their kids. Now those relationships are being corroded by the state.
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| Friday 7 August 2009 |
At last, a serious debate on ‘social evils’
In a challenging new book, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation looks at how therapy culture and individuation have frayed the social fabric.
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| Friday 31 July 2009 |
At last, a serious debate on ‘social evils’
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation has celebrated its 100th birthday not by throwing a party or patting itself on the back, but by publishing a challenging book on how individuation and therapy culture have eaten away at the social fabric.
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| Friday 3 July 2009 |
The grisly memoirs of a bad mother
Ayelet Waldman’s memoir may be solipsistic, but it is far more enlightening than the reams of mummy lit written over the past 10 years.
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| Friday 26 June 2009 |
Bad mother, good book
Ayelet Waldman’s memoir about her various ‘maternal crimes’ is sometimes eye-wateringly detailed, solipsistic and infuriating – but it is also far more enlightening than the reams of mummy lit written over the past 10 years.
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| Monday 15 June 2009 |
Hands off home education!
The UK plan to clamp down on home-schooling, partly to ensure children aren’t being abused, is a serious assault on parental autonomy.
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| Tuesday 2 June 2009 |
One family’s tragedy, not a political indicator
While commemorating Dr Tiller's life and work, we should be clear about whether his murder has wider meaning for the politics of abortion.
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| Wednesday 27 May 2009 |
Rule 19: Your child’s Body Mass Index is nobody’s business but yours
As part of its fatwa against fat the government is measuring every schoolkids’ height and weight. It’s a waste of time – and bad for children.
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| Thursday 21 May 2009 |
Abortion rates: it’s not the economy, stupid
Many thought the new UK abortion stats, released today, would show a link between the recession and rising abortion rates. They were wrong.
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| Friday 24 April 2009 |
Trapped in ‘Cyburbia’
A fascinating new book argues that today’s internet culture springs from the anti-authority, anti-objectivity outlook of the 1960s counterculture, and puts the case for people escaping from their all-consuming ‘Second Lives’.
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| Friday 27 March 2009 |
The tyranny of
emotional etiquette
The critique of Frank Furedi’s Therapy Culture in the current British Social Attitudes survey misunderstands the thrust of Furedi’s argument, and the extent to which emotional conformism has gripped modern Britain.
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| Friday 27 February 2009 |
Deconstructing dads
Instead of lecturing fathers about ‘doing their bit’, politicians would do better to understand the messy and complex reality of contemporary parenting.
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| Tuesday 17 February 2009 |
Rule 18: be sceptical about ‘bad childhood’ reports
With so many shrill studies telling us that parents are selfish and uncaring, is it any wonder some children might feel a little insecure?
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| Friday 30 January 2009 |
The making of a
modern-day witch hunt
The publication of the paperback version of Richard Webster’s The Secret of Bryn Estyn is a powerful reminder of who is driving today’s hysterical anti-paedophile witch hunts: police, judges, politicians… the elite, not the mob.
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| Monday 29 December 2008 |
If only it had stayed ‘all in his mind’
Alastair Campbell’s first novel offers an intriguing peep into New Labour’s view of the human condition: a world in which fucked-up lunatics and victims are governed by other fucked-up lunatics and victims.
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