Maybe we can afford both, and the British public is certainly generous when faced with famine and disaster overseas. But we really urgently need a fund to restore a business and a home to those innocents who have lost everything due to the riots of the last few days. Insurance is bound to be insufficient. If we…
I have just returned from a family law conference about parenting, at which I gave a paper on childrearing and the law. It was entitled The Children of No-Fault Divorce. In it I set out the results of research that show that poverty and family breakdown are major issues in children’s failure to reach their potential. In fact family breakdown…
I have been in Malta for a few days, at a long-arranged family law conference. It turned out to coincide with the vote in Malta to allow divorce for the first time, and the passage of the new divorce bill. The Prime Minister and the Archbishop attended part of the conference. The Maltese population is…
First it was injunctions, now it is hacking. I did not take hacking seriously at first, for after all, as one who spends hours on trains, there seems to be no regard for privacy in the use by the owner of his or her mobile phone. But it has been revealed to have a darker…
Just back from a remarkable memorial celebration of the life of Dr Ann McPherson, Oxford GP, who died recently of pancreatic cancer, aged 65. She is probably best known to the public as the author of Diary of a Teenage Health Freak, which sold over a million copies and led to the setting up of a website for teenage…
