Childcare – the 19-minute myth
Today’s Daily Mail rediscovers an entertaining myth it first promulgated in 2006 – that mothers who work spend just 19 minutes a day with their children.
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Today’s Daily Mail rediscovers an entertaining myth it first promulgated in 2006 – that mothers who work spend just 19 minutes a day with their children.
The air is loud with denunciations of the way in which tickets for next year’s London Olympics are being allocated.
Some stories won’t die.
The Daily Mail yesterday splashed on a story on the number of care home residents who have died as a result of dehydration in the past five years.
The comparison website Confused.com has interrogated its database to come up with some curious findings.
Another ludicrous survey from our friends at 72Point, swallowed whole by The Sun, Daily Mirror, The Daily Telegraph, Daily Record and the Daily Mail online.
“Rise of the high-flying wives who leave hubby in the home” wrote the Daily Mail.
Some newspapers today ran a “survey” showing that we get too little sleep – just six hours seven minutes a night.
Safety Camera no. 50, as it is known to Essex Police, is the unassuming name of one of the most controversial speed cameras in the UK.