Cristina Odone

Kemi is right about absent fathers

23 October 2024 1:02 am

Kemi Badenoch MP keeps being compared to Margaret Thatcher. But the truth is she has taken on the persona of…

What’s the problem with zero-hour contracts?

10 October 2024 5:25 pm

Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner is set to unveil her workers’ rights bill this week – and ‘exploitative’ zero-hour contracts…

Labour’s childcare confusion has gone on for too long

1 October 2024 10:49 pm

For parents with young children, it’s been a game of grandmother’s footsteps. First they heard from the new Labour government…

Labour’s toothbrush classes for school kids? No thanks

16 January 2024 4:45 pm

Labour’s latest proposal for teachers to supervise pupils’ toothbrushing reveals a worrying view of parenting as playing a light-touch, rather…

How the Tories failed stay-at-home mums

16 November 2023 7:10 pm

We know that Westminster politicians do not always listen to ordinary voters. But there are few issues on which our…

The quiet truth about two-parent families

26 September 2023 9:39 pm

Imagine a key that opened the door to a place where children did better at school, were less likely to…

Steven Spielberg and the truth about divorce

1 February 2023 5:55 pm

Steven Spielberg has suggested that The Fabelmans, his latest film, is a $40 million therapy project. The Fabelmans focuses on divorce and in doing so holds a mirror…

Johnny Depp and the truth about male domestic abuse victims

31 May 2022 7:59 pm

James looks nothing like Johnny Depp. For one thing, he is a lot taller than the 5 foot 8 star;…

How lockdown sparked a wave of anxiety among Britain's children

21 January 2022 9:50 pm

I knew what ‘anxiety’ meant when I was in primary school. But it was not a word I had cause…

What has happened to parenting?

28 December 2020 6:00 pm

During a recent webinar with British MPs, I learned that parents in Bradford were up in arms because their children…