Samsung's first dual screen camera: do we have to smile at the birdie?
I see in Amateur Photographer today that Samsung is releasing the first camera with two screens. Well, why have one when you can have two. Apparently the second screen will help with taking pictures of...
View ArticleThe moral panic about kids on the Pill is ridiculous
So, 1,000 girls aged 11 and 12 are on the Pill, apparently, and this means that there is an Epidemic of Underage Sex and we should all get very upset about it immediately. Or, alternatively, not. This...
View ArticleWe need common sense, not studies, to get kids eating more veg
That's the idea: the Anderson family with their homegrown vegetables (Photo: Kevin Holt) Who’d be a parent? First one study from the Universities of Pennsylvania and Appalachian States claims to...
View ArticleDo we really need 'children's music'? They'll be fine with David Bowie
I was on BBC Breakfast TV this morning with Justin Fletcher, better known to every adult with a young family as Mr Tumble, the red-nosed clown from CBeebies who keeps your child hypnotised by talking...
View ArticleMerry Wives of Windsor is Shakespeare's sitcom. Take your children to see it
Merry Wives of Windsor is Shakespeare’s sitcom. In fact, it’s his sitcom spin-off. Legend tell us that Elizabeth I was so amused by the character of Sir John Falstaff in Henry IV Parts I and II that...
View ArticleAuthors should only have one child? Nonsense
Cyril Connolly wrote “Enemies of Promise” just before the Hitler war. Writers, or aspiring writers, may still read it with a touch of anxiety; it lists and describes the various obstacles that may...
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