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Mad bureaucracy in a dangerous world   Charterhouse Chronicle Lynette Burrows   What a preposter­ous idea of the BBC's to stifle any mention of Peter Mandelson alleged homosexuality. Preposterous and doomed. How John Major must have longed to have allies like that in the media...

When sex is very far from safe...   As government experts argue for lowering the age of consent for girls to 14, Lynette Burrows points out the flaws in their thinking   It would help everyone if we realised that there is a cultural war going on. The trouble is, only one of the...

Into the hands of paedophiles   The House of Commons is today expected to pass a change in the law governing homosexual relations. Lynette Burrows finds the measure naive   IT IS the juxtaposition of the two that should alert us to danger. Seeking to lower the age of homosexual...

Mother-of-six Lynette Burrows recalls the emotional turmoil that drove her to flee from home as a child   Inside the mind of a teenage runaway   THEY have everything before them. They have their health. They have ambi­tions. They have the excitement of experiencing everything for...

Spare the job, mother, and save the child   The chief cause of juvenile delinquency is the working woman, says Lynette Burrows   GK CHESTERTON remarked that there was but a hair's breadth between meaning well and meaning nothing. Unfortunately, that applies to the current...

Can there be a lesser of two evils?   Recent figures on abortion have brought crucial questions freshly to the fore. Here two Catholic commentators give diverging arguments   Lynette Burrows argues that taking a soft line on contraception and sin crucially alters our moral...

PRICE WE ALL PAY WHEN WOMEN SHIRK PARENTAL RESPONSIBILITY   What kind of mother farms out her baby?   by LYNETTE BURROWS   IT IS an axiom of modern life that children spend ever-decreasing amounts of time in the company of their parents. Despite every report pointing up the...

Was brave Alison such a responsible mother?   By LYNETTE BURROWS   DEATH concen­trates the mind wonderfully, as Samuel Johnson observed. The untimely death of Alison Hargreaves on the slopes of the K2 mountain reminds us why women do not often get involved in such enterprises....

Drug legalisation is the opium of the intelligentsia   LYNETTE BURROWS   THE CASE for legalising drugs is being made more frequently and ever more urgently. John Casey's argument, made eloquently in The Daily Tele­graph last week, is simple and almost completely convincing. It...

Who'll take over?   LYNETTE BURROWS   DOES IT matter that a large number of young women say that they do not intend to have any children? The question is posed by the projection published last week by the Office of Popula­tion Censuses and Surveys which finds that 20 per cent of...

The big booze boob   LYNETTE BURROWS   IF anyone wants to know how long even the most disastrous social experi­ments can continue in the face of common sense and experi­ence, they have only to contemplate the history of Prohi­bition. Seventy-five years ago the sale and...

Making a killing   The hit film 'Pulp Fiction' turns extreme violence into a profitable joke, says LYNETTE BURROWS   THE FILM Pulp Fiction is one which recog­nises its limitations, and gives itself an accurate title. To most people it is fairly obvious that an enor­mous...

Making a mugger’s day   LYNETTE BURROWS   New York   Everybody said it would happen if I went to New York. You'll get mugged, they said, and I did. Three days into my maiden visit I was strolling home with my brother at nine o'clock on a beautiful eve­ning. The streets were...

Eat your nice slices   LYNETTE BURROWS   FASCISTS, in a strictly political sense, have always been thin on the ground in this country, but the emotional sort — those who want to force others to live according to their beliefs — are everywhere.   Consider Mrs Bottomley and the...

Guns that deter   LYNETTE BURROWS   ONCE again we have seen armed police out in force in pursuit of a criminal who, in this case, shot himself dead. It is a sight that is becoming ever more familiar, and the irony is that the liberal philosophy that denied society the sanc­tion...

A licence to deprave   Lowering the age of homosexual consent should be resisted, argues LYNETTE BURROWS   THE House of Commons is to have a free vote on whether to lower the age of consent for homo­sexuals from 21 to 18, or 16. Edwina Currie, who is putting the case for reform...

Disease of ‘the Social’   LYNETTE BURROWS   SURELY the most impor­tant point to emerge from the case of the young mother who left her child unattended all day in order to go out to work is that she did not consider going to the social services department for help. It is as though...

Through foreign eyes   LYNETTE BURROWS   CAMBRIDGE is full of foreign visitors at pre­sent, and I am teach­ing a clutch of them in a sum­mer school. Very enjoyable it is too, and it strikes me again this year how alive and well are national stereo­types. It is part of our...

Pity the little children who do not labour   Lynette Burrows argues that girls and boys should go out to work   A REPORT published last week by the Low Pay Unit, an independent research organi­sation, entitled The Hidden Army, revealed that 43 per cent of children aged between...

The abuse of social work   Dawn raids to seize children continue. Lynette Burrows asks who is doing the real damage   THE LATEST affair involving social workers — the dawn raids, with the police in tow, on hitherto respectable families in order to seize their children and carry...

Barminess about bonking   Lynette Burrows wonders why progressives are suddenly so shocked by under-age sex   A REVIEW published recently by the Family Policy Studies Centre tells us that 50 per cent of all girls have had sexual intercourse before they reach 16. One must assume...

No smacking - another fad that threatens families   AS IT IS   by LYNETTE BURROWS   Heigh-ho! this week has been designated National No-Smacking Week by one of those ineffably self-important, ludi­crous groups composed of media child-care experts who think they know what is...

The cult of violence in the home by Lynette Burrows   BY THE TIME he is 12 the average child will have seen 10,000 simulated deaths on television, many of them during the season of peace on earth and goodwill toward men. It's all part of Christmas fun, of course, along with...

Do not violate marriage   MANY people must have felt uneasy at the Law Commission's proposal last week that a new offence of marital rape be put on the statute book. The last time it was considered by the Criminal Law Revision Committee, in 1984, they were divided on the issue and...