Experts now say letting your baby wail Doesn’t harm them

Four months after having my first child, Alexander, I was an emotional wreck. As the editor of a parenting magazine, I had access to experts on every conceivable topic and, before his arrival, I’ll admit I thought I knew a fair bit about mothering. Well, children have been tormenting their parents with lack of sleep … Read more

DAN HODGES: Coogan and Dimbleby can weep and wail, but the BBC licence fee MUST be scrapped 

Alan Partridge is taking to the streets.  ‘I would man the barricades to defend the BBC,’ actor Steve Coogan pledged last week, before warning Ministers that ‘they’ll have a fight on their hands if they threaten it’. He won’t be alone. Yesterday BBC royalty, in the shape of veteran broadcaster David Dimbleby, joined the uprising. ‘The … Read more