Since the consultation period ended on 16 April (2013), the new national curriculum is due to be finalised and taught to millions of pupils from September 2014. As one has come to expect of Michael Gove, the curriculum reforms have been controversial - particularly regarding the omittance of climate change...

Has a decline in outdoor play and the juggernaut of digitalisation damaged the institution of childhood?

A Brief History

William Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience were written in 1789 and concern the two contrary states of the human soul. If childhood is John Milton's idea...

When you graduate, you open a door. That door leads into a grey room and when you are inside that grey room, there is no turning back. This isn't adulthood, this is that limbolic period in between. You cannot see the walls past the hazy weariness inside your brain and...

For over ten years, I grew up near Margate, Kent. It's a place synonymous with the dying art of the British seaside holiday, boasting brightly broken arcade fronts and the gaping wounds of burnt out buildings.

It wasn't always like that, of course. Things used to be better, bustling...