Fay Weldon says something sensible: shock, horror
Fay Weldon is at it again: coming out with pronouncements on the grim state of modern womanhood that seem designed to rile feminists. Only months ago, there was sock-gate, when Weldon suggested that...
View ArticleGuess what, Frank Field? Most mothers actually want to work
Frank Field is out of touch. Hard on the heels of his assertion that what women want is a male breadwinner who will take care of the finances so she can stay in the "private domain of the home" comes...
View ArticleShould tax cuts for people on low incomes prioritise people with children?
The Family and Parenting Institute has commissioned some interesting research from the Institute for Fiscal studies on "The Impact of Austerity Measures on Households with Children." The title gives...
View ArticleUnpaid 'work experience' is a depressing solution to youth unemployment
I was relatively lucky when I graduated. I only worked unpaid for around six weeks – four weeks at a think tank and two weeks here – before a newspaper started paying me to write. Lucky, because that...
View ArticleWhy the Government is right to want to improve the poverty target
"When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions." Shakespeare's famous line explains why the Government has just launched a consultation on reforming the way the child poverty target...
View ArticleThe obsession with sexual harassment is turning the 21st-century workplace...
This article in the Independent might just be the most dispiriting thing I have read so far this year. It is a long list of tips about “what is and isn’t acceptable in the modern workplace” and how one...
View ArticleThe benefits cap is designed to cheer up hard-pressed taxpayers
Save us from surveys. The University of Somewhere has published a study on something. They have examined it in detail and their research indicates that somehow the thing that everyone thought was the...
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