March 13, 2005
'Child-unfriendly' England warned
Al Aynsley-Green, at the moment the government's child health tsar, warned of a 'deep ambivalence' in England towards children and childhood, with families and parents caring greatly about their own children but remaining unconcerned about other people's.
This is not limited to children: I think that increasingly Britons care deeply about those very close to us and very little about everyone else, with the notable exceptions of celebrities and unless our heart-strings are being tugged by Comic Relief et al..
