Children
Misappropriating motherhood
La Leche League and the pornification of breastfeeding
The problem with right-wing natalism
No one actually knows how to raise birth rates
Why tech execs don’t give their kids phones
Gen Z’s brains have been “rewired” by the online world —can they be restored to factory settings?
Where is so much gender confusion coming from?
The scope of inquiry into gender and young people should be expanded to schools
Childhood reclaimed
Mobile phones have been constraining our kids’ imaginations — but it does not have to be this way
There is no magic bullet for raising birth rates
A complex network of spiritual, cultural and economic factors underpin our fertility slump
Arresting the fertility crisis
Britain needs more babies — and it is far from alone
Therapy is making children ill
What would really help children’s mental health is talk about resilience
Dial S for screen time
These middle-class tweens being forbidden phones have had iPads since they were six
A mum’s place is in the Irish constitution
Ireland’s constitution is rare in protecting mothers, so why change this?
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
A mean mood in Makerfield
Reform have enthusiasm, but quiet Labour voters could still swing it for Burnham
The soul of Putin
Twenty-five years after George W. Bush first looked into Vladimir Putin’s eyes, the Russian president has changed less than America would like to believe
Jolly boating weather
The Gondoliers, English Touring Opera, Hackney Empire
Piano pair strike just the right note
Serendipity has delivered a double bill for the ages this month
Rewatching a TV show from a lost world
In River Cottage, a chef escaped to Dorset from London in search of the good life
Signal failure
Ministers love announcing transformative mega-projects, but millions of commuters would settle for an internet connection that actually works
No gods, no monsters
We should stop projecting our neuroses onto foreign leaders
David Lean
The cinematic genius admired by today’s directors
Better Slayyyter than never
Like the first Strokes album if Max Martin had produced it
The Goodwin that failed
Pareto and the problem of elite circulation
Baddiel shoots, he doesn’t score
If you want to understand English football, you will get better answers knocking on doors in Burnley than Hampstead