Who has failed our children?

It’s half-term week this week, the kids are at home, but are they happy there? According to a stinging Unicef report, the UK is accused of failing its children, coming bottom of the league table. It looked at 40 indicators, including poverty, peer and family relationships, when monitoring child well-being across 21 industrialised countries. As a result, the UK has been described...
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Long live romance, but not just for today

I can’t not mention what today is with all those hearts and flowers at the top of my site. I wonder if men feel pressurised into buying cards and  flowers to celebrate St Valentine’s Day. I suspect they do. Although it smacks of consumerism, many men ignore it at their peril. I feel it’s what happens throughout the year in a...
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