Children

Of course we should ban kids from social media

The opponents of restrictions for under-16s miss the point of health policy

We know everything and nothing about Molly Russell

The teen belonged to the most documented generation in history

The hidden cost of “deplaytion”

Ban social media for kids all you like – but don’t ignore their crap playgrounds

How Big Tech ruined kids’ TV

On YouTube, the line between entertainment and sedation grows ever thinner

Millennials want to save children from social media

The first generation raised by the internet wants to be the last

AI teddy bears should not give bondage advice

We can’t let AI capture our children’s minds

What baby books taught me about the British state

The Bookstart scheme, which gives books to newborns, is a remnant from a more beneficent political era

How do you explain tragedy to children?

From terrorist attacks to the war in Gaza, I have spent ten years reporting difficult topics for the most sensitive…

January 1973: Paul Foot rails against establishment neglect of the thalidomide children

Inside the Send class war

Parents detect an element of divide and rule from politicos

How do I know if I want children enough?

Watching my friends get married and buy houses and have babies reminds me I once imagined these things for myself

Is the government about to lift the two-child benefit cap?

Pre-conference pressure means the policy could be abolished next week. But why has it taken so long?

Angela Rayner is a victim of Britain’s housing crisis

The pressure on parents and divorcees has never been so harsh.

The millennial parent trap

This generation are desperate to raise their children differently. Why?

Health bosses failed to act on NHS clinic prescribing gender drugs to kids for five years

The organisations meant to safeguard care for gender-questioning young people are not working as they should.

Gaza’s children need Britain’s support now

A Labour government should offer more than hypocrisy and broken promises to suffering young people.

Schools need more sex education, not less

Children must be prepared for the world as it is.

No one wants to pay to fix Britain

Labour backbenchers are preparing to rebel against cuts that haven’t even been announced yet.

The horror of Gaza’s children’s hospitals

One doctor’s experience of life and death in the warzone.

The Casey report reveals 15 years of establishment denial

The audit found a “collective failure to address questions about the ethnicity of grooming gangs”.