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Read The Book
Before the welfare state
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The Greycoat Hospital
The Greycoat Hospital was once a workhouse. It has since been a hospital and a school. It has a very long welfare history. It has now been taken over by the state.
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The Greycoat Hospital
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Education and State
Licence
Stats
Once again, a murderer turns out to have come from a broken home
Anders Beivik, like Raol Moat, the killers of Jamie Bulger and, I would suggest, most others who have hit the headlines as killers, came from a broken home . I wonder if it is particularly significant that he was rejected … Continue reading
Sweden is not Marilyn Munroe
(This is the unedited version of an article which appeared recently in the Spectator) Sweden is iconic like Marilyn Munroe or Karl Marx. It is supposed to stand for something special: a kind of socialist paradise where socialism and a … Continue reading
Posted by James Bartholomew
Indexed in Education, Healthcare and the NHS, Parenting, Politics, Welfare benefits
Italy and Sweden – worlds apart
I have done two highly contrasting trips in the past few months. First Italy and then Sweden. In both cases, the trips were prompted by other things but I used them to research a new book I am writing about … Continue reading
Posted by James Bartholomew
Indexed in Education, General, Healthcare and the NHS, Housing, Parenting, Welfare benefits, Work on the new book
In Japan, hard work and the parents are important in education. Maybe we should try these things.
The reputation of Japanese education has taken a bit of a tumble. It was regarded in the 1980s as being a model to follow. This was because the Japanese economy was doing so astonishingly well that people around the world … Continue reading
Italian welfare – a curate’s egg
I have just returned from a visit to Italy where I spoke to quite a lot of interesting people about the welfare state there. I learned too much to put down a fraction of it here. But this, in ultra-brief, … Continue reading
Posted by James Bartholomew
Indexed in Care for the elderly, Education, Healthcare and the NHS, Housing, Parenting, Pensions, Tax and growth, Welfare benefits, Work on the new book
Working mothers, lone parents and divorce.
There is a great deal of diverse information in the OECD publication which is referred to in the following report. Half of British mothers now go out to work before their child’s first birthday – despite clear evidence it can … Continue reading
From broken families to ‘evil’
How do we raise empathetic children? “The aim is to produce children who that the world is a safe place, not chidren who grow up unabl to trust adults because they have been beaten or because there is no predictability … Continue reading
Why are there so few Japanese unmarried mothers?
Yoshiko found she was pregnant and talked to her live-in lover about what they should do. His attitude was not exactly out of the P.C. book of ‘The Right Things To Say When Your Girlfriend Says She Is Pregnant’. He … Continue reading
“nearly every violent teenage girl I met could trace her problems back to an absent or abusive father”
The tough truth is that fatherless families tend to lead to increased crime among the children. Here is some more of Harriet Sergeant’s excellent reporting from the front line: Hand in hand with violence and gang culture is the high … Continue reading
East Side Story – visit to a charity (2)
I visited Community Links for a second time last week. I have lost most of my notes but here is some of what I remember. 1. Cutbacks to citizens’ advice and legal aid The first thing the policy people at … Continue reading
Posted by James Bartholomew
Indexed in Behaviour & Crime, Charity, Parenting, Reform, Welfare benefits