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Keir Starmer’s war on mothers
- Posted by jennie
- Posted on July 29, 2024
- Parenting culture,Politics and policy
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As their swift suspensions indicated, Keir Starmer can probably cope with a rebellion of “pissed-off” Labour MPs over his failure to commit to scrapping the two-child benefit cap. But when even Suella Braverman, the Right-winger that right-thinkers love to hate, gets in on the act, he must sense trouble brewing. The benefit cap, which prevents parents […]
The cult of Plastic Woman
- Posted by jennie
- Posted on August 7, 2023
- Parenting culture,Politics and policy
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How fantastic is life in plastic? I’m not talking about Barbie here, though of course the film’s defining moment is Gloria’s bitter feminist monologue: “I’m just so tired of watching myself and every single other woman tie herself into knots so that people will like us.” I mean the longer-running cult of plasticity, popularised in the 2000s with […]
The toddlers have taken over
- Posted by jennie
- Posted on April 5, 2019
- Politics and policy
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As the parliamentary pantomime over Brexit carries on procrastinating, the audience is united on one thing: utter embarrassment about the behaviour of MPs. Almost three years on from the EU referendum – the referendum they voted to hold, the decision they voted to deliver, the commitment they made in the last General Election – they […]
Buying off young people
- Posted by jennie
- Posted on May 11, 2018
- Baby Boomers,Millennials,Politics and policy
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As adults, we have some major obligations to our children. We nourish their bodies, helping them through the chaos of toddlerhood and the hormonal hell of their teenage years, so that they grow into physically healthy adults. We nourish their minds, helping them to access the cultural heritage that our society has built up over […]
Time for a truce in the ‘generation wars’
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- Posted on January 9, 2018
- Politics and policy
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The old and the young need to come together. But how? Mixing Matters, a new report by the charity United for All Ages, has called for the promotion of ‘shared sites’ that can facilitate contact between older and younger people. These include nurseries sharing a space with care homes, sheltered housing developments letting flats for […]
The promotion of ‘generational equity’ is a divisive pursuit
- Posted by jennie
- Posted on June 23, 2017
- Baby Boomers,Millennials,Politics and policy
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It has become fashionable in policy and media circles to talk about inequality between the generations. We are warned that today’s young people belong to a “jilted generation” (1), or a “stagnation generation” (2), who have been cornered by the economic and political problems of the moment and are unable to buy a house, start a […]
The manipulative flattery of the youth vote is demeaning to young people and bad for politics
- Posted by jennie
- Posted on June 15, 2017
- Millennials,Politics and policy
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Jeremy Corbyn has gained much of the credit for the apparently high youth turnout for the General Election, and fair enough. But let’s not kid ourselves: there are deeper currents at work. The big thing that seems to have propelled young voters back to the ballot box was the EU Referendum of 2016. Contrary to […]
Understanding Trump voters
- Posted by jennie
- Posted on November 25, 2016
- Politics and policy
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The US election, like the EU referendum in Britain, was replete with the language, imagery and discussion of emotion. The masses have been portrayed as an irrational mob, easily swayed by lies and false promises; broken hearts have been worn on sleeves and paraded on social media; downright nasty insults have been traded on all […]
Theresa May, forget social justice – give us politics
- Posted by jennie
- Posted on July 25, 2016
- Politics and policy
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In the post-Brexit confusion, you can almost hear the gnashing of the policy-wonks’ teeth. Who are these people? What do they want? But it’s really not that complicated. People might want any number of things out of their lives – but when it comes to social policy, there are a few obvious places to start. […]
Remain voters, quit the granny bashing
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- Posted on June 27, 2016
- Baby Boomers,Millennials,Politics and policy
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Among the many divisions brought to the surface by the EU referendum, an apparent ‘generation war’ is raging. A recent poll, which found that most young voters chose to Remain, and most over-45s chose to Leave, has led to an explosion of bitterness from the younger sections of the electorate. Teenagers who are not yet old […]
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