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Monday 8 April 2013
‘Pro-family’ politicians: a threat to the family Social conservatives, take note: it is oxymoronic to try to strengthen the family by bombarding parents with patronising advice.

Monday 28 January 2013
‘I’ve been likened to a Holocaust denier’ American academic Joan Wolf tells spiked why the militant lactivists of the breastfeeding lobby found her book Is Breast Best? so hard to swallow.

Tuesday 22 January 2013
The ‘generation war’ over abortion rights ESSAY: Among abortion activists, there’s a worrying shift from supporting choice to demanding ‘justice’.

Wednesday 16 January 2013
What future for the family? ESSAY: When it comes to parents, the Lib-Cons are as manipulative and distrustful as their predecessors.

Thursday 27 December 2012
From freewheelin’ Sixties to fearmongerin’ Noughties Everyone talks about the impact, whether good or bad, of the tumultuous Sixties - but two in-depth books about that decade say and reveal more than most.

Tuesday 17 July 2012
How the nationalisation of parenting stoked the riots ESSAY: The state’s relentless undermining of parental authority has created a world in which no one knows how to control children or teens.

Wednesday 13 June 2012
Cutting the experts’ apron strings Jennie Bristow answers your questions on how to be a subversive parent and stand up to ‘supernanny’.

Tuesday 12 June 2012
Keep abortion out of adoption policy ESSAY: Encouraging women seeking abortion to give birth and do adoption instead ignores the birth mother’s feelings.

Monday 19 March 2012
How anti-abortionists are upping the ante ESSAY: Heated debate about abortion is good - but pro-lifers' new tactic of harassing individual women and doctors is cowardly and wrong.

Tuesday 10 January 2012
Divorcing marriage from morality By promoting it as a least worst lifestyle option, modern defenders of marriage are undermining its best aspects.

Friday 23 December 2011
A fresh-faced look at growing old In Never Say Die, Susan Jacoby elbows aside old prejudices about ageing and the ‘illderly’ and asks instead how society can sensibly cope with having lots of older people.

Friday 28 October 2011
We don’t need to talk about hating kids Lionel Shriver’s Orange Prize-winning novel turned award-winning film about a woman who can’t love her son has been hailed for revealing a hidden truth about motherhood. This mum isn’t empathising.

Monday 19 September 2011
Parents should rise up against this neurotrash ESSAY: Dodgy neuroscience is being used to justify unprecedented levels of state intrusion into family life.

Tuesday 30 August 2011
These riots were not a product of permissiveness Blaming the looting on the ‘liberal experiment’ of the 1960s is not only wrong - it could also make the real problems in urban communities worse.

Monday 18 July 2011
Lib-Con family policy: Maggie meets Mary Poppins The coalition’s family policy is an unholy marriage of Thatcher-style traditional moralism and New Labour-style therapeutic interventionism.

Thursday 26 May 2011
The new parenting catfight: Tiger Moms vs Fun Slobs The nature/nurture debate is as unhelpful as ever in solving the problem of raising children.

Thursday 5 May 2011
It is right that society offers ‘Ground E’ abortions The anti-choice lobby’s obsession with abortions for fetal abnormality reveals its vindictive use and abuse of statistics.

Friday 1 April 2011
Women: equal at work, still unequal at home? Christina Hopkinson’s sparkly new novel has been read as a privileged mum’s moan about cleaning. In fact it raises more than a few awkward questions about domestic drudgery.

Monday 14 February 2011
How Britain’s abortion law punishes women The UK High Court will rule today on whether women should be free to carry out ‘early medical abortion’ at home. Jennie Bristow reports.

Thursday 10 February 2011
How the vetting frenzy alienates adults from kids ESSAY: The state’s vetting of adults working with children suggests it no longer trusts us to use our judgement to socialise the next generation.
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Time for a serious debate about the welfare state

Has welfarism gone too far? Is it time to trim this massive machine? And more importantly, shouldn’t it be trimmed for the *right* reasons - that is, not in order to save the state money but as a way of protecting communities from the negative impact of constant welfarist intervention?

We’ll be debating these issues at the next session of our spiked drinks events at Portcullis House in London on Monday 3 June at 6.30pm. Find out more here.


	15 May 2013 St Angelina, save us from ourselves!


	14 May 2013 Remember, Fergie is for football, not for life


	17 May 2013: *The Star Trek* hype? It’s illogical, captain.**


	17 May 2013: Don Draper: it’s time to buck your ideas up
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