Benefit changes will entrench the poor in ‘food bank Britain’
Changes to the benefits system delve into the pockets of the poor and will lead to more families and disabled people needing to use food banks.
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Little evidence that faith schools provide a better education
The relationship between religion and education is a crucial issue for the UK. Historically, the British school system owes a lot of its shape and purpose to early work by churches and religious groups…
Stop the fines and blame games: let’s end the war on parents
Parents could soon face fines for parking too near to a school, according to a new Manifesto Club report on new Public Spaces Protection Orders. This comes after a record number of 63,837 fines were imposed…
New law will help drive more clinical trials for child cancers
Clinical trials provide the unbiased evidence essential for improving treatments in all areas of medicine. For children with cancer the development of safe treatments that work has relied on high quality…
Headteachers march: the school funding protests explained
Why are headteachers from across the country protesting at Westminster?
This obsession with parenting is out of control
Not long ago, an email went around some of the academic lists I subscribe to entitled “New parenting study released”. Heart sinking a little as I clicked the link to a New Yorker article, I expected to…
Why do leaders go to war when it could damage their own people too?
Wars can start due to a disagreement, fear, or a desire for more power.
How do children use the internet? We asked thousands of kids around the world
The developing world is waking up to the internet. We need to know how new generations of children use it.
It’s a boy – but baby Cambridge deserves choices in life
Not for the first time in our long lives, Prince Charles and I find ourselves on parallel tracks, our first grandchildren born within weeks of each other. I offer him my congratulations, and hope that…
Tears, compromise, divorce – what it’s like to leave the UK because of Brexit
The plight of those who felt compelled to leave when that reality ended is often overlooked.