Look at the colour of that sky! Everything looks good against a blue sky. Even skyscraper cores. The pace of development in Manchester is absolutely astonishing. Thatcher years: no skyscrapers Major … (View Post)

The ability to turn out a good sentence is overrated; and the ability to craft a good plot underrated. The latter is far harder and far more important to the enjoyment of a book. This is one of the r… (View Post)

I think parents do 'own' their children, at least until they achieve majority. If we accept that children are not yet mature enough to make long-term decisions in their own interests - whic… (View Post)

It should be. But it isn't. Since about 2012, what was rightly a very very niche issue, which nobody really needed to worry about because it affected almost nobody - has been, as Donkeys says, r… (View Post)

I think we're talking about 'parental responsibility' for children rather than 'parental supermacy', which seems a weirdly loaded phrase. If we accept that there should be re… (View Post)