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| Wednesday 3 February 2010 |
‘We’re afraid of our kids, and we’re afraid for them’
Anthony Horowitz, author of the bestselling teenage spy novels, talks to Jennie Bristow about vetting and the poisoning of adult-child relations.
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| Friday 15 January 2010 |
Turning teachers into objects of suspicion
A new book argues that mistrust of adults and the erroneous belief that children always tell the truth are creating a minefield of abuse accusations.
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| Wednesday 6 January 2010 |
Abortion: the freedom to make tough choices
Essay: The anti-choice lobby’s claim that abortions always impact on women’s mental health is moralism masquerading as science.
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| Wednesday 30 December 2009 |
It’s not true that children never lie
A provocative new book argues that a combination of suspicion towards adults and officialdom’s belief that children always tell the truth is creating a minefield of abuse accusations in schools.
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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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