JONNY Hiles’ father said today that prosecutors were confident a British teen will be sent to Greece to face trial over his manslaughter.

Our story on a new zero level for teen drink driving was full of people confidently deploying facts. Yet their facts rarely seemed to me to support their case. And certainly didn't prove it. Let me take you through it....

On teen pregnancy rates. Hackney, one of London’s most deprived boroughs, saw a 25% drop in its teen pregnancy rate; Blackburn, also with high levels of deprivation, saw a comparable improvement. Have they controlled for a change in the local population? This is very much a question, not an assertion, for I don’t really know. But anecdotally I’m

The search for a scapegoat for the number of teen pregnancies seems endless. We blame too little sex education then too much. We blame celebrities then we come to our senses. We blame parents yet at the same time we seek to lock them out of decisions about how to raise children, most recently with the suggestion that parents will have no right to opt their young children out of sex education class...

At a time when 50% of new-born children in England and Wales are bastards, we are told that an epidemic of mugging, violence, intimidation and weapons crime is concentrated amongst teenagers, i.e. those born some 13 to 19 years ago, between 1989 and 1995. During this period bastardy was running at about half its present level. If there is a causal link between bastardy and teen-on-teen violence, w...

Now, this story made me smile.. A young 18-year-old teen mother in Oklahoma City took out an intruder to protect herself and her 3-month-old baby on New Year's Eve, less than a week after the baby's father died of cancer. Sarah McKinley said that on Christmas Day, the same day of her husband's funeral, a man later identified as Justin Martin dropped by, claiming that he was a neighb...

I was amused to discover that Conservative Chairperson, Caroline Spelman, has formulated a new word to describe her party's philosophy: "In recent years we have moved forward to Conservative Socialism, ie helping people to help themselves through support and education." I'd be quite interested to discover if her senior colleagues agreed with such an oxymoron and the term ewver became off...

I was appalled to discover that the voter identification in Glasgow East prior to the bye election campaign was close to zero, despite the outgoing MP having sat for many years. One of the main duties of any MP must be to work with  councillors and Party members to canvass the electorate continuously. It is intrinsic to our political purpose that we engage with constituents to discover their conce...

Two film themes from Henry Mancini, audio only. First, the excellent, powerful and evocative theme from Phaedra... Discover Henry Mancini & His Orchestra And Chorus! Now The Wishing Star, which is the theme from Taras Bulba... Discover Henry Mancini & His Orchestra And Chorus!

Wise beyond their years, or brainwashed by their elders?