The Childcare Cliff: Crossing £100,000 in adjusted net income can abruptly remove funded childcare in England. Here’s how the cliff works — and why its longer-term cost falls disproportionately on mothers’ careers.
A few months ago I noticed something small: I’d stopped trying to remember phone numbers, then addresses, then the route to somewhere I’d driven a dozen times. None of that felt like a loss in…
There’s a photo of me in the office mirror this week: olive knit, dark trousers, metallic heels. Then there’s another taken on the train less than an hour earlier: raincoat, umbrella, bags, crowded carriage. Same…
I like a fresh start. There is something hopeful about having a fresh start before life has had a chance to complicate it. January can do that. So can a birthday, a Monday or the…
Some days feel fine even when they’re full. Others feel like they’ve gone wrong by 11am even when, on paper, nothing bad has happened. The difference often isn’t how full the day is. It is…