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Last weekend my son left London to go to university in America. Seeing him off was a bittersweet experience. The bitter part is obvious; the sweet part less so
Read full article...Exams are inevitable. But they get in the way of education and put too much pressure at too young an age
Food shopping in supermarkets is out; digging is in. Imported food is so pre-crisis; local produce is the thing — even, improbably, in London
Archbishop Nichols, head of the Catholic Church in England, is worried that social-networking sites are “dehumanising” community life
Alistair Darling's eyebrows have gone into overdrive. They've been shooting up and down and in and out over the past few days as his brow furrows and frowns in displeasure at the behaviour of the banks
My mother is nearly 90. She has been happily married twice and widowed twice; she has had four children, all of sound mind and body; she has travelled widely and lived in Africa and England
The past few days have brought two pieces of sad news: the deaths of eight soldiers in Afghanistan, and that of a fireman in a pub fire in Edinburgh
There's precious little succour available to Labour MPs in these dark times; but some of them, oddly, are drawing comfort from the dreadful fiscal state the country will be in by the time of the next election
The starving victims of the ninth circle of hell in Dante's Inferno gnaw at each other's heads while their bodies are frozen in ice
Why do we bother with Father's Day? The male parent offers precious little to celebrate. Most fathers are absent, in mind if not in body, and those that are present are greedy, stupid, lazy, drunk, selfish and bald
Last weekend I visited Poundbury, the village which embodies Prince Charles's vision of what modern architecture should be like. It's more like the fake town in Jim Carrey's The Truman Show than an English village
Caroline Flint, the former Europe minister, is angry at the shortage of powerful women in Gordon Brown’s Cabinet
Arguments over the consequences of immigration are furious and frequent. But it has another, less-noticed, result: it fertilises literature
If you were asked to name some of the things that shape the relationship between parents and children there are many you might think of: schools and peer groups, divorce and remarriage, drugs and drink, television and books, illness and ageing
A few weeks ago a woman emailed me to comment on a piece I'd written about universities. Bea Vo wanted to set me right about one aspect of the American system
When I first went into journalism it was a leisurely business steeped in tradition and alcohol
The Government has decided that elections are a bad idea. Preparing for them takes up an inordinate amount of time that could be more usefully spent governing
One of the few consolations available in misfortune is the knowledge that the neighbours are in a worse fix than you are
Gordon Brown has said that tomorrow's Budget will be a green one. If true, it will be just the latest example of governments buying into the idea that they can save the world economy and the planet at the same time. President Obama has committed $100 billion to environmentally-friendly measures in his stimulus plan.
News of the latest salvo in a strange war between parents and the Government comes from Durham University, which has turned down a boy from St Paul's School with four A grades at A-level
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