This week there have been alarming reports of the state of children’s health in the UK. The Academy of Medical Sciences published a new report on the worsening health of under-fives, highlighting that the UK is 30th out of 49 rich countries for infant mortality. It also found that: One in five children falls short …
One of the largest and longest running studies of social attitudes, the World Values Survey, has found that UK families value their child’s “self-expression” more than the importance of children doing what they are told. The number of British people who thought that children should be taught obedience fell from 42% in 1990 to just …
Feminism Against Progress by Mary Harrington. Reviewed by Joanna Bogle This is a necessary and almost overdue book. Mary Harrington was involved in drugs, the “genderqueer” scene, online chats where any new identity could be adopted…and then, very slowly, various truths and warm realities fostered a time of questioning. It was, powerfully, motherhood that produced …
We recently shared on social media the account of a mum who told us about her 6-year-old daughter coming home from school asking if she was a boy or a girl. At the time, the little girl was in Y3 and the primary school she attends had recently begun using the provider Jigsaw for its …
This article by Robert James first appeared on The Conservative Woman and is reposted with their permission. When and if a history of contemporary Britain that deals honestly with the cause and effect of social problems is published, it will resemble a sort of suicide note. It will be seen that policies that have bad …