With the weather (allegedly) improving, the spring ushers in scores of new cyclists to the city's streets. Cycling is a 'good thing', but with the greater density of cyclists on the road, it can be intimidating for those wanting to give it a go.

I decided to take to the...

Google has a problem - its social network G+ has some neat features, but very few people use it regularly - 83% of users are 'inactive', preferring the established Facebook and Twitter. One of these neat G+ features is 'hangouts' which allows people to have video conferences.

'Why...

Today we can relax about sexual equality and the emancipation of women, because all that was sorted out decades ago, right?

Not if we follow the bizarre trajectory of two campaigns launched last week, coincidentally the same week adland recognised its best accomplishments in Cannes.

The Guardian yesterday published research that shows 3.6m households in the UK are a short step away from poverty, but one simple measure would help these families and boost the wider economy - make childcare tax-deductible.

The Government knows there is a problem, commissioning a review...

It's official - childcare costs cripple family budgets and force parents to make impossible financial choices. For too long, the government - both this one and the previous government - have forced costs down onto parents, who are now at breaking point.

Tonight's BBC Panorama report (Monday) and...

While Religious discrimination is illegal in the UK, it is alive, well, and hard-wired into the selection process for faith schools up and down the country thanks to a loophole permitted for the selection of pupils for faith schools.

Right now, thousands of parents are pondering which primary school to...

An industrial dispute in Britain's universities has shown that we work more than our working contracts stipulate - often at levels that breach the government's own limits - and this is disrupting our home lives.

40,000 researchers, lecturers and other university staff are enmeshed in a dispute over...

Divorced fathers will not have any automatic access to their children under new proposals by the Ministry of Justice. The move ignores David Cameron's desire to keep fathers engaged with their children, risks more Fathers for Justice-style protests, and leaves a confused message coming from the Government.

The...

The government has finally published its proposals to measure how happy we are, but somewhere along the road they lost the notion of 'family'?

Yesterday the Office of National Statistics (ONS) published its latest consultation document, to measure the level of happiness in the UK.

The first index was developed...

Your childhood has a powerful impact on the rest of your life. Just think of the rush of nostalgia you feel when you hear a song you loved as a kid, or the memories that flood your mind when you smell something that evokes your childhood, like a particular perfume...