Baby talk
Jonathan Rée on the scientist in all of us
Education & Children
Suffer Little Children
With a new creationist academy opening this month, and the prospect of dozens more Church schools on the way, Marilyn Mason advises on how to mount effective opposition.
Bringing Up Baby
Jan Fortune-Wood gleans nothing useful from a revolutionary child-rearing manual
You’re in Denial
Michael Rosen on saying No
Hail Mary!
Sally Feldman on making your children worship you
My Baby’s Better than yours
Lisa Harker wants infant equality
Relatively Speaking
Michael Rosen wonders where the modern family ends
Plus Ca Change
An occasional column dedicated to items from the past that ring a familiar note in the present
Stifled Steps: Islam and Education
Azam Kamguian argues that progressive education is secular education and that Islamic education is predicated on sexual apartheid.
Faith or Farce
Keith Porteous Wood, executive director of the National Secular Society, watched from the sidelines as the House of Commons debated the future of faith schools.