Ever since Jimmy Saville died and the skeletons began to fall out of his erstwhile tightly-locked cupboard, sexual abuse, particularly of children, has become News ( Read more... )

Apparently some people have been telling Americans that it is not safe for them to visit the UK.  Well, if you want to be scared by your leaders or would-be leaders, Dear American Reader, that is up to you.  On the other hand, if you want to judge them by the accuracy of their statements . . .  The words 'vile' and 'calumnies' spring to mind.  Also ( Read more... )

Oh look, the LibDems are promising free childcare for every two-year-old should they get re-elected next year.  Now I understand how having children can affect a woman's career prospects, and I know quite how isolated and brain-dead you can get to fee after a while with a new baby BUT, and you just knew that there was a BUT coming, didn't you, Dear ( Read more... )

Apparently a lot of childcare costs more than the average mortgage.  Which in one way is only right and proper - after all, would you want to leave your children with someone who didn't have a clue?  So some  women are giving up work to become full-time mothers, for a while at least ( Read more... )

Divers
(& not one of them underwater!)

In times when the only children you hear about have either been murdered, abused, or are complete and utter brats - try this one.  Michael, aged 5, is a complete hero.  (& I bet he wears his underpants inside his trousers!)  Just goes to show what people, including small ones, can do if they have to.  Mind ( Read more... )