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Sarah Evans: What is age of innocence?

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 08:00:00 GMT

The news about Jon Venables, one of the boys who killed toddler James Bulger, has, over the last few weeks, re-ignited the debate about the age of criminal responsibility.

Chris Upton: Dog days for Crufts show

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 08:00:00 GMT

It’s too late for this year, but I wonder whether Crufts, in its next year of residence at the NEC might consider introducing a “Dangerous Dogs” class in their show.

Jon Walker: A union of thinking for the Labour Party?

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 08:00:00 GMT

I discovered something shocking this week. The Labour Party apparently has links to shadowy organisations determined to run down Britain.

Richard McComb: It’s not really good to talk

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 08:00:00 GMT

I’ve got to see Becky from the bank and have failed miserably to get out of the appointment.

Sarah Evans: We cannot lose sight of our humanity

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:00:00 GMT

I’m not a Michael Gove groupie and some of his educational ideas, like those of so many who haven’t lingered in a classroom for many a long year, are simply batty, but he did say something in an interview last week that gave me a little glimmer of hope.

Jonathan Walker: Comeback win for Gill?

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:00:00 GMT

Former MEP Neena Gill could be making a comeback as Labour’s candidate for Walsall South.

Chris Upton: A flock to the order of things

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:00:00 GMT

I have never knowingly identified myself with sheep. Indeed, the only time I give the woolly creatures any attention at all is when I’m explaining the medieval English economy to my students.

Richard McComb: Can we have more food?

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:00:00 GMT

If office-based lunches are a droll affair, the prize for the most droll must go to Monday.

Richard McComb: The day the junket died

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:21:00 GMT

I’ve lost my broadcasting virginity and it’s all thanks to Jo.

Jonathan Walker: A matter up for debate

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:14:00 GMT

The Midlands is to host one of the election debates, after the main parties managed to agree on a format with the television companies.

Chris Upton: A blast from the past . . .

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:12:00 GMT

I have spent much research time with Victorian mortality recently. The result of this is, if I go down with anything, that I immediately assume I must have caught it from reading. So, a couple of weeks back, I had typhus, which turned into cholera, and then into a generic zymotic disease.

Sarah Evans: Sex education is not at school

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:08:00 GMT

There is such hypocrisy around when society at large starts to pontificate about education. Nowhere is it more blatant than in the area of sex education.

Jon Walker: Answers from Kraft at last?

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:56:00 GMT

Kraft may at last give some straight answers about its plans for Cadbury when senior managers are quizzed by the Commons Business Committee next month.

Richard McComb: To tweet or not to tweet

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:44:00 GMT

It will be no loss to microblogging, but I have tweeted my last.

Sarah Evans: Writing is on Facebook wall

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:38:00 GMT

Adults have always worried about children’s reading habits.

Chris Upton: Lessons from my mother

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 11:00:00 GMT

Sometime last Friday evening my mother died, though it was Saturday morning when we found her lying still in the hall, still clutching her walking-stick.

Richard McComb: Why a street car is desired

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 11:00:00 GMT

Somewhere between Götaplatsen and Kungsportsplatsen, I saw the future – and realised it was the past.

Jonathan Walker: Do MPs need Tweet rules?

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 10:00:00 GMT

To my knowledge David Wright has not denied sending a series of messages which illustrate one of the pitfalls of using the internet – it often brings out the worst in people.

Sarah Evans: Seven ages of parenthood

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 09:00:00 GMT

I’m really enjoying A-levels. I couldn’t wait for half term to embark on the wider reading so much extolled by teachers everywhere.

Jonathan Walker: Handing power to councils can be a double-edged sword

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 18:06:00 GMT

Opposition leaders usually promise to give more power to local communities and councils – and frequently disappoint once they get into power.